Redressing the Balance

American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s

Author: Nancy A. Walker
Secondary Author: Zita Dresner
ISBN: 0878053646

Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s gives new focus to the wide field of humor is the first comprehensive anthology of American women's humorous writing. The editors have included works by such well-known writers as Dorothy Parker, Phyllis McGinley, and Gertrude Stein as well as by once-popular but forgotten authors such as Frances Whitcher, Carolyn Wells, Alice Duer Miller, and Florence Guy Seabury. Indeed, one of the purposes of the anthology is to reclaim the tradition of women's humor in America, from the witty observations of Sarah Kemble Knight in the early eighteenth century to humorous essays on contemporary American society by Victoria Geng and Gail Sausser. Included are feminist political satires, literary parody, light verse, and domestic humor by more than fifty American women during a period of more than three hundred years. The collection provides ample evidence that women-white and black, urban and rural, newspaper co

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publish Date: 1988-01-01

Subjects: Humor / General, Literary Collections / American / General, Literary Criticism / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Humor)