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1 online resource (x, 321 pages) |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index. |
| Contents |
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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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
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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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American wit and humor -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American wit and humor. |
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Southern States. |
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American wit and humor -- Southwest, Old -- History and criticism.
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American wit and humor -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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19th century |
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Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
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Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts. |
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Humorists, American. |
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Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southwest, Old.
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Southern States -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Southwest, Old -- Intellectual life.
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Southwest, Old -- In literature.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Inge, M. Thomas.
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Piacentino, Edward J., 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Humor of the Old South. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001 (DLC) 00012286 (OCoLC)45363166 |
| ISBN |
9780813159638 (electronic book) |
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0813159636 (electronic book) |
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0813121949 (acid-free paper) |
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9780813121949 (acid-free paper) |
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