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Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Necessary Madness The Humor of Domesticity in NineteenthCentury American Literature Author:Gregg Camfield Women's humor is one of the last genres of women's writing to be "rediscovered." Camfield here challenges criticism that postulates "women's humor" as a new genre distinct from and in opposition to "men's humor." While examining the works of Irving, Fanny Fern, Twain, Stowe, and Melville, he argues that humor serves as an important tool for both... more » men and women to manage their ambivalent feelings about the new ideology of domesticity so prevalent in nineteenth-century America.« less