Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Catherine R. Stimpson, Eileen Gillooly

Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Women in Culture and Society

Catherine R. Stimpson, Eileen Gillooly

316 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

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Like sex, Eileen Gillooly argues, humor has long been viewed as a repressed feature of nineteenth-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, Gillool...

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