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In this study of three of Barbara Pyms novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of womens humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of womens humour enables Pyms female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.

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"A significant contribution to Pym scholarship, an important and insightful study." Orna Raz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Table of Contents
Introduction; Characteristics of Womens Humour; Some Tame Gazelle: Construction of Womens Veiled Humour; Excellent Women: Humour of Mildred Regarded as an Excellent Woman; Jane and Prudence: Unconventional Wife and Satisfied Spinster; Conclusion.

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      Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
      Publication Date: 09/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9783838215037, 978-3838215037
      ISBN10: 3838215036
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this study of three of Barbara Pyms novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of womens humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of womens humour enables Pyms female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.

      Trade Review
      "A significant contribution to Pym scholarship, an important and insightful study." Orna Raz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Characteristics of Womens Humour; Some Tame Gazelle: Construction of Womens Veiled Humour; Excellent Women: Humour of Mildred Regarded as an Excellent Woman; Jane and Prudence: Unconventional Wife and Satisfied Spinster; Conclusion.

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