SOURCE: "Easygoing Men and Dressy Ladies," in Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature, Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. 115-25.
In this excerpt, Habeggar argues that in the 1860s, "humor . . . was a club for men only," substantiating his assertion with a study of the masculine bias in several texts.
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