Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index.
Contents
Women and comedy in eighteenth-century England -- Defiant laughter : Mary Wollstonecraft and feminist humor -- From inside jokes to published comedy -- Comedy in manners : making fun of the angel in the house -- Mocking the "Lords of creation" : male comic characters -- The limits of sisterhood : satirizing women -- Goblin laughter: violent comedy and the condition of women.
