Research Catalog

Title

Look who's laughing : gender and comedy / edited by Gail Finney.

Publication

Langhorne, Pa. : Gordon and Breach, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Finney, Gail

Description

xii, 363 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in humor and gender ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Studies in humor and gender v. 1.

Alternative Title

Look who is laughing

Subject

• Comedy
• European drama (Comedy) > History and criticism
• Women and literature
• Women in literature
• Comic, The

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Drama -- "That's how it is" : comic travesties of sex and gender in early sixteenth-century Venice / Eric A. Nicholson -- Imagining consummation women's erotic language in comedies of Dekker and Shakespeare / Mary Bly -- Dwindling into wifehood : the romantic power of the witty heroine is Shakespeare, Dryden, Congreve, and Austen / Donald A. Bloom -- Confinement sharpens the invention : Aphra Behn's The rover and Susanna Centlivre's The busie Body / Suz-Anne Kinney -- Masquerade, modesty, and comedy in Hannah Cowley's The belle's stratagem / Erin Isikoff -- The sphinx goes Wilde(e) : Ada Leverson, Oscar Wilde, and the gender equipollence of parody / Corinna Sundararajan Rohse -- 2. Fiction -- When women laugh wildly and (gentle)men roar : Victorian embodiments of laughter / Karen C. Gindele -- The feminine laughter of no return : James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson / Kristin Bluemel -- Courthip, comedy, and African-American expressive culture in Zora Neale Hurston's fiction / Barbara Monroe -- Feminism/gender/comedy : Meredith, Woolf, and the reconfiguration of comic distance / David McWhirter -- "Between the gaps" : sex, class and anarchy in the British comic novel of World War II / Phyllis Lassner -- -- Alice Childress's Like one of the family : domestic and undomesticated domestic humor / Zita Z. Dresner -- Funny, isn't it? : testing the boundaries of gender and genre in women's detective fiction / Gloria A. Biamonte -- 3. Film, stand-up comedy, and cartoon art -- Hollywood, 1934 : " inventing" romantic comedy / Kay Young -- Mae West was not a man : sexual parody and genre in the plays and films of Mae West / Andrea J. Ivanov -- Women on the verge of a nervious breakdown : sexism or emancipation from machismo? / Florence Redding Jessup -- Between the laughter : bridging feminist studies through women's stand-up comedy / Allison Fraibert -- Comic strip-tease : a revealing look at women cartoon artists / Jaye Berman Montresor.

ISBN

• 2881246443
• 2881246451 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^93044165^

OCLC

• 29637804
• SCSB-12788111

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library