Necessary Madness —— The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

----- 必要的疯狂：19世纪美国文学中的家庭幽默

ISBN: 9780195100402 出版年：1997 页码：255 Camfield, Gregg Oxford University Press

Camfield offers a comprehensive examination of the ways humour was used by major writers of fiction in nineteenth-century America. Camfield argues that humour serves as an important tool for both men and women to manage the ideology of domesticity so prevalent at the time, and he shows how gender comes to bear upon comic techniques and sensibilities.