The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
Author:   James E. Caron
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
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9783031412752


Pages:   217
Publication Date:   03 January 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   James E. Caron
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.432kg
ISBN:  

9783031412752


ISBN 10:   3031412753
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   03 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Fanny Fern and the Mob of Scribbling Women.- 2 Sara Payson Willis Parton’s (Comic) Preacher, Fanny Fern.- 3. The Satirist and Her Public.- 4 Satirizing Gender Expectations: Fanny Fern as the Impossible Subject.- 5 Creating Comic Community: Scathing Epithets, Caricature, and Comic Violence.- 6 Constructing Fanny Fern as Satirist.- 7 Fanny Fern’s Significance in the American Comic Tradition.

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James E. Caron is Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaiʽi at Mānoa. In addition to publishing many articles on comic writers and comic artifacts, he has authored Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement (2021), and Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter (2008), as well as co-edited essays on Charlie Chaplin in Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon in Critical Contexts (2013).

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