Bibliograph

Laughing feminism, subversive comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen, Audrey Bilger

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Laughing feminism, subversive comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen, Audrey Bilger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Laughing feminism

Oclc number

38174508

Responsibility statement

Audrey Bilger

Series statement

Humor in life and letters

Sub title

subversive comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen

Table Of Contents

Women and comedy in eighteenth-century England -- Defiant laughter: Mary Wollstonecraft and feminist humor -- From inside jokes to published comedy -- Comedy in manners: making fun of the angel in the house -- Mocking the "Lords of creation": male comic characters -- The limits of sisterhood: satirizing women -- Goblin laughter: violent comedy and the condition of women

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