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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gregg Camfield |
| ISBN: | 0195100409 9780195100402 |
| OCLC Number: | 34912800 |
| Description: | xviii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Gregg Camfield. |
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Abstract:
Turning next to literary case studies powerfully revealing of this contact, Camfield in part II pairs male and female humorists - Washington Irving and Fanny Fern; Harriet Beecher Stowe and Herman Melville; Mark Twain and Marietta Holley; and George Washington Harris and Mary Wilkins Freeman - not only to demonstrate the way these influential writers approach domesticity with genial humor, but also to support his claim that gender difference does not always correlate to differences in viewpoint and practice within this common style.
Broadening out to an intriguing consideration of humor theory in part III, Camfield draws on recent work in psychology, culture studies, neo-pragmatist philosophy, and neuroscience to model a compelling alternative view of humor capable of negotiating both the complexities of nineteenth-century American humor and the comic art of periods before and since. Students and scholars of humor, nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and women's writing, will find Necessary Madness to be a provocative, essential achievement.
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- American wit and humor -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Families in literature.
- Home in literature.
- Humour américain -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature.
- Mariage dans la littérature.
- Famille dans la littérature.
- Foyer dans la littérature.
- Häuslichkeit <Motiv>
- Literatur.
- Humor.
- USA.

