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The Humor of the Old South /

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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Otros Autores: Piacentino, Edward J., 1945-, Inge, M. Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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 Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. 
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650 6 |a Humour americain  |y 19e siecle  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 6 |a Humour americain  |z États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest)  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 6 |a Humour americain  |z États-Unis (Sud)  |x Histoire et critique. 
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650 0 |a American wit and humor  |z Southwest, Old  |x History and criticism. 
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