Madcaps, screwballs, and con women : the female trickster in American culture
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first study to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with nineteenth-century novels such as The Hidden Hand, or Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century fiction, film, radio, and television, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©1998
comic books
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780812234350, 9780812216516, 0812234359, 0812216512
37987032