Restoration stage comedies and Hollywood remarriage films : in conversation with Stanley Cavell /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Series: | British literature in context in the long eighteenth century.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.