Restoration stage comedies and Hollywood remarriage films in conversation with Stanley Cavell
Prologue: the reason and the rhyme -- Something from nothing: marriage, conversation, and the tragicomic plot -- The thin man of mode -- Whippoorwills, gypsies, and fantasies of the night: Aphra Behn's The rover and Frank Capra's It happened one night -- Luck, be a lady: Aphra Behn, Presto...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, New York
Routledge
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue: the reason and the rhyme -- Something from nothing: marriage, conversation, and the tragicomic plot -- The thin man of mode -- Whippoorwills, gypsies, and fantasies of the night: Aphra Behn's The rover and Frank Capra's It happened one night -- Luck, be a lady: Aphra Behn, Preston Sturges, and the ethics of genre -- Playing and not playing: William Wycherley's The country wife and Howard Hawks's Bringing up baby -- Forgotten men: William Wycherley's The plain dealer and Gregory la Cava's My man Godfrey -- Provisos and reprieves: William Congreve's The way of the world and Howard Hawks's His girl friday -- Happily ever after? the awful truth about careless husbands -- Epilogue: hope springs eternal |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 235 - 246 |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 253 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781472484581 978-1-4724-8458-1 |