British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning But Laughing: Not Drowning But Laughing

by Margaret D. Stetz

This title was first published in 2001. This work focuses upon women who have not merely produced comic texts, but used their comedies to examine laughter itself as a problematic issue. Whether to embrace laughter wholeheartedly, whether to do so in a cautious and limited manner, or whether to forswear it entirely - women's opinions have seldom been in accord on one answer. For women writers of the 20th century laughter has been something to be weighed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138718874
• ISBN13: 9781138718876
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge