Smile of Discontent:Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Women in Culture & Society Series WCS) '99
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Argues that humour has long been viewed as a repressed feature of19th-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austenand Henry James, the book points to a wryly amusing perspective that differsin rhetoric, affect, and politics from traditional forms of comic expression.
