An historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home, this book begins with a chapter on the social context of traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with the 1920s and continuing through today, cover the different time periods and the foremost American domestic humorists, and the humor written by surrogate parents, grown children about their childhood families, husbands, and Canadian and English writers. Also covered are the differences among various writers toward traditional domestic roles - some, like Erma Bombeck and Judith Viorst,...
An historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home, this book begins with a chapter on the social context of traditional domestic rol...
