The humor of the Old South /

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This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty-five years' most significant writing on the humor of the Old Southwest, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Inge, M. Thomas, Piacentino, Edward J., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
Temas:
1800-1899
American wit and humor > Southern States > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > Southwest, Old > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > 19th century > History and criticism.
Humorists, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States.
Humorists, American > Homes and haunts > Southwest, Old.
Humour américain > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Humour américain > États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Humour américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
HUMOR > General.
HISTORY > General.
American wit and humor
Humorists, American > Homes and haunts
Intellectual life
Literature
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Southwest, Old > Intellectual life.
Southern States > In literature.
Southwest, Old > In literature.
États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la littérature.
États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Dans la littérature.
Southern States
United States > Old Southwest
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The origins of the humor of the Old South / J.A. Leo Lemay
  • "Sleepy hollow" comes south : Washington Irving's influence on Old Southwestern humor / Ed Piacentino
  • The function of women in Old Southwestern humor : rereading Porter's Big bear and Quarter race collections / William E. Lenz
  • Contesting the boundaries of race and gender in Old Southwestern humor / Ed Piacentino
  • Darkness visible : race and pollution in Southwestern humor / Scott Romine
  • The prison house of gender : masculine confinement and escape in Southwest humor / Gretchen Martin
  • Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's Georgia scenes / Kurt Albert Mayer
  • A biographical reading of A.B. Longstreet's Georgia scenes / David Rachels
  • A sadder Simon Suggs : freedom and slavery in the humor of Johnson Hooper / Johanna Nicol Shields
  • Revising Southern humor : William Tappan Thompson and the Major Jones letters / David C. Estes
  • Backwoods civility, or how the ring-tailed roarer became a gentle man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson / James E. Caron
  • Bench and bar : Baldwin's lawyerly humor / Mary Ann Wimsat
  • The good doctor : O.B. Mayer and "human natur'" / Edwin T. Arnold
  • An Old Southwesterner abroad : cultural frontiers and the landmark American humor of J. Ross Browne's Yusef / Joseph Csicsila
  • Mark Twain : The Victorian of Southwestern humor / Leland Krauth
  • Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood : Southwestern humor as stream of consciousness / Stephen M. Ross
  • Southwestern humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the comedy of frustration / R.J. Gray.

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