How the Other Half Laughs : The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 /

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"Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cole, Jean Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Comic books, strips, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comics & Graphic Novels.
Comique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
Comic, The > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The comic sensibility
  • The comic grotesque
  • Rising from the gutter
  • Illustration and the narrative quality of appeal
  • The black comic sensibility
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • Index.

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