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Author : Judith Ann McGrath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Wit and Humor of Women Writers in Nineteenth-century America written by Judith Ann McGrath and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Anne Curry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Women as Subjects and Writers of Nineteenth Century American Humor written by Jane Anne Curry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Levy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134385862
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Ladies Laughing written by Barbara Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven writers - Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, Alison Lurier, Grace Paley, and Anne Tyler - and discusses their writings and their use of wit in the context of their lives. An opening chapter frames wit and control in psychological realities, and a concluding chapter summarizes the power of wit. A bibliography of the writers' works is also included, making this an ideal introduction and companion to these writers and their works.
Author : Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319567292
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers written by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the ways in which their humor challenges gendered norms and assumptions through the use of irony, satire, parody, and wit. The chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of racial, class, and gender identities and encompass a variety of genres and comedic forms including poetry, fiction, prose, autobiography, graphic memoir, comedic performance, and new media. Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers will appeal to a general educated readership as well as to those interested in women’s and gender studies, humor studies, urban studies, American literature and cultural studies, and media studies.
Author : Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
Publisher : Humor in America
ISBN 13 : 9780271095714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)
Download or read book New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century written by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams and published by Humor in America. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of pioneering female writers who used humor as an indirect form of social protest to challenge traditional gender norms and social expectations in interwar New York.
Author : Susan M. Coultrap-McQuin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608086132
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Doing Literary Business written by Susan M. Coultrap-McQuin and published by . This book was released on with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Jean Monroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mother Wit written by Barbara Jean Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joyce W. Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813569215
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (692 download)
Download or read book The (Other) American Traditions written by Joyce W. Warren and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Walker Heidari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000586944
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers written by Melissa Walker Heidari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King’s fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically. In her introduction, Melissa Walker Heidari examines selections from King’s journals and letters as views into her journey toward a modernist aesthetic—what King describes in one passage as "the continual voyage I made." Sirpa Salenius sees King’s fiction as a challenge to dominant conceptualizations of womanhood and a reaction against female oppression and heteronormativity. In his analysis of "An Affair of the Heart," Ralph J. Poole highlights the rhetoric of excess that reveals a social satire debunking sexual and racial double standards. Ineke Bockting shows the modernist aspects of King’s fiction through a stylistic analysis which explores spatial, temporal, biological, psychological, social, and racial liminalities. Françoise Buisson demonstrates that King’s writing "is inspired by the Southern oral tradition but goes beyond it by taking on a theatrical dimension that can be quite modern and even experimental at times." Kathie Birat claims that it is important to underline King’s relationship to realism, "for the metonymic functioning of space as a signifier for social relations is an important characteristic of the realist novel." Stéphanie Durrans analyzes "The Story of a Day" as an incest narrative and focuses on King’s development of a modernist aesthetics to serve her terrifying investigation into social ills as she probes the inner world of her silent character. Amy Doherty Mohr explores intersections between regionalism and modernism in public and silenced histories, as well as King’s treatment of myth and mobility. Brigitte Zaugg examines in "The Little Convent Girl" King’s presentation of the figure of the double and the issue of language as well as the narrative voice, which, she argues, "definitely inscribes the text, with its understatement, economy and quiet symbolism, in the modernist tradition." Miki Pfeffer closes the collection with an afterword in which she offers excerpts from King’s letters as encouragement for "scholars to seek Grace King as a primary source," arguing that "Grace King’s own words seem best able to dialogue with the critical readings herein." Each of these essays enables us to see King’s place in the construction of modernity; each illuminates the "continual voyage" that King made.
Author : Marjory A. Bald
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483768215
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Women-Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by Marjory A. Bald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Women-Writers of the Nineteenth Century This collection of studies does not aim at giving an ex haustive account of the contribution made by women to Nineteenth Century literature. Neither does it profess to be in any sense a feminist treatise. The writers selected were in all cases remarkable women; but they were something more -remarkable human beings. I have endeavoured throughout to concentrate, not merely on questions of sex, but on the complete humanity of each woman. So far as possible all pre conceived theories of the literary woman have been deliberately excluded. There is no initial attempt to determine what the woman of letters should be like. After looking carefully at these particular women, we may see What she has sometimes been like; and we may also discern certain characteristics common to different women of literary instinct. That is all the theory which this book professes to give. For its aim has not been the evolution of a principle. It has attempted something more elusive, and to many minds far more satis fying - to look at individual writers, as it were face to face, with a quickened sense of kinship and reverence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Julia Nitz
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174610
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Belles and Poets written by Julia Nitz and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novels, especially works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets, in moments of uncertainty and crisis. While previous studies have overlooked or neglected such literary allusions in personal writings, regarding them as mere embellishments or signs of elite social status, Nitz reveals that these references functioned as codes through which women diarists contemplated their roles in society and addressed topics related to slavery, Confederate politics, gender, and personal identity. Nitz’s innovative study of identity construction and literary intertextuality focuses on diaries written by the following women: Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews of Georgia (1840–1931), Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut of South Carolina (1823–1886), Malvina Sara Black Gist of South Carolina (1842–1930), Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan of Louisiana (1842–1909), Cornelia Peake McDonald of Virginia (1822–1909), Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire of Virginia (1813–1897), Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone of Louisiana (1841–1907), and Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas of Georgia (1843–1907). These women’s diaries circulated in postwar commemoration associations, and several saw publication. The public acclaim they received helped shape the collective memory of the war and, according to Nitz, further legitimized notions of racial supremacy and segregation. Comparing and contrasting their own lives to literary precedents and fictional role models allowed the diarists to process the privations of war, the loss of family members, and the looming defeat of the Confederacy. Belles and Poets establishes the extent to which literature offered a means of exploring ideas and convictions about class, gender, and racial hierarchies in the Civil War–era South. Nitz’s work shows that literary allusions in wartime diaries expose the ways in which some white southern women coped with the war and its potential threats to their way of life.
Author : Linda Morris
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women Vernacular Humorists in Nineteenth-century America written by Linda Morris and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oorspr. verschenen als proefschrift, 1978 Stephens, Ann Sophie (1813-1886): Whitcher, Francis M. (1814-1852): Holley, Marietta, (1856-1926).
Author : Nancy A. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842026888
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book What's So Funny? written by Nancy A. Walker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture, a collection of 15 essays, examines the meaning of humor and attempts to pinpoint its impact on American culture and society, while providing a historical overview of its progres-sion. Essays from Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner, Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson, William Keough, Roy Blount, Jr., and others trace the development of American humor from the colonial period to the present, focusing on its relationship with ethnicity, gender, violence, and geography. An excellent reader for courses in American studies and American social and cultural history, What's So Funny? explores the traits of the American experience that have given rise to its humor.
Author : Jane Anne Curry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women as Subjects and Writers of Nineteenth Century American Humor written by Jane Anne Curry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara A. White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136290923
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870 written by Barbara A. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately 325 19th century writers who meet those criteria. There are indexes by pseudonym, editor, and subject. The sources provide information not only about the individual authors but also about the history of criticism and literary politics, especially women's place in the American literary canon.
Author : Eliza Leslie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803238096
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Selections from Eliza Leslie written by Eliza Leslie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for her culinary and domestic guides and the award-winning short story “Mrs. Washington Potts,” Eliza Leslie deserves a much more prominent place in contemporary literary discussions of the nineteenth century. Her writing, known for its overtly moralistic and didactic tones—though often presented with wit and humor—also provides contemporary readers with a nuanced perspective for understanding the diversity among American women in Leslie’s time. Leslie’s writing serves as a commentary on gender ideals and consumerism; presents complicated constructions of racial, national, and class-based identities; and critiques literary genres such as the Gothic romance and the love letter. These criticisms are exposed through the juxtaposition of her fiction and nonfiction instructive texts, which range from lessons on literary conduct to needlework; from recipes for American and French culinary dishes to travel sketches; from songs to educational games. Demonstrating the complexity of choices available to women at the time, this volume enables readers to see how Leslie’s rhetoric and audience awareness facilitated her ability to appeal to a broad swath of the nineteenth-century reading public.
Author : Karen L. Kilcup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-century American Women Writers written by Karen L. Kilcup and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
