Penelope Fritzer, Bartholomew Bland

Merry Wives and Others

A History of Domestic Humor Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with the 1920s and continuing through today, cover the different time periods and the foremost American domestic humorists, and the humor written by surrogate parents, grown children about their childhood families, husbands, and Canadian and English writers. Also covered are the differences among various writers toward traditional domestic roles--some, like Erma Bombeck and Judith Viorst, embraced them, while others, like Caryl Kristenson and Marilyn Kentz, resisted them. Common themes, such as the isolation and competitiveness of housework, home as an idealized metaphysical goal and ongoing physical challenge, and the urban, suburban, and rural life, are also explored.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780786413058
• ISBN-10: 0786413050
• Artikelnr.: 21193466

Autorenporträt

Penelope Fritzer is an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University's Davie campus. She lives in Coral Springs.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
1 Social Context    
2 Laying the Foundationnbsp;   
3 Midcentury Merry Wives    
4 Queen Erma and Her Early Contemporaries    
5 The Next Wave    
6 The Current Crop: Postmodernists and Traditionalists    
7 Husbandly Humor I: In the Beginning    
8 Husbandly Humor II: Contemporary Comics    
9 Through the Eyes of a Child    
10 The Christian Contingent    
11 Curiouser and Curiouser    
12 Canadian Writers    
13 British Writers    
14 Making the Connections    
Bibliography      
Index