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Sto caricando le informazioni... My discovery of England (originale 1922; edizione 1922)di Stephen Leacock
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Essays.
Travel.
Nonfiction.
Humor (Nonfiction.)
HTML: Canadian humorist and academic Stephen Leacock had a plethora of opportunities to explore new cultures as he traveled the globe in support of his many popular books, often giving scholarly talks along the way. In this uproarious volume of essays and vignettes, Leacock sets down his impressions of a promotional tour of England. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Overall, the essays were easy to read, and I really liked the essay on different types of humour (although he and I disagree on the hilarity of the pun -- I love puns, whereas he does not think they are terribly funny, at least not on the level the English apparently find them). However, his essay on education (and visiting Oxford) had some very dated and sexist views on the value of women's education. Despite the fact that he taught coed classes at McGill, he didn't seem to think it worthwhile for the women to be there because the vast majority of them were just going to go and get married anyway. He does acknowledge that there are women who are able to make careers for themselves and not get married or have children, but he doesn't seem to think it wrong that they should have to give up the use of their education or their jobs when they get married. He also touches on the subject of different aptitudes, but he divides them along gender lines, assuming that women do worse at math and science, for example. I do realize that this perspective is a product of his times, but he went on about it for too long for me to just brush off.
I would NOT recommend the essay about Oxford, but the humour essay was all right, and the one where he writes the same editorial for several different newspapers was an interesting literary exercise. This is also not the book to be starting out with if you've never read Leacock -- go to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town instead. ( )