Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature

by Regina Barreca

In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy. Each of the essays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814321364
• ISBN13: 9780814321362
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"