‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907)
An actress turned playwright and political militant, Elizabeth Robins was aware of the political uses of laughter. Her novel The Convert, in which laughter is explicitly linked to performance and action, is stimulating material for an investigation of the part played by humour in women’s empowerment...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2022
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