Comedy and the Woman Writer: Woolf, Spark, and Feminism

by Judy Little

Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty--perhaps the impossibility--of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent criticism: feminist literary theory and theories of comedy. Judy Little develops a critical apparatus for identifying feminist comedy in recent fiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803228597
• ISBN13: 9780803228597
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"