| Description |
ix, 331 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Contents |
1. General overviews: Tall tales of the Southwest / Franklin J. Meine -- Southern humor / John Donald Wade -- Humor of the old Southwest / Walter Blair -- 2. Authors and works: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870): Georgia scenes / Edgar Allan Poe ; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: a Southern cultural type / John Donald Wade -- William Tappan Thompson (1812-1882): "The big bear of Arkansas," T.B. Thorpe and his masterpiece / Walter Blair -- George Washington Harris (1814-1869): Humorous works of George W. Harris / Donald Day ; Sut Lovingood / Brom Weber ; Sut Lovingood / Edmund Wilson ; Imagery of George Washington Harris / Milton Rickels -- Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864): Joseph Glover Baldwin: humorist or moralist? / Eugene Current-Garcia -- Harden E. Taliaferro (1818-1875): Harden Taliaferro, folk humorist of North Carolina / James H. Penrod -- 3. Folk figures: Mike Hooter -the making of a myth / John Q. Anderson -- David Crockett, the legend and the symbol / James Atkins Shackkford -- Who wrote "The harp of a thousand strings?" / George Kummer -- 4. Impact on American literature: Mark Twain and the humor of the old Southwest / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- Faulkner and certain earlier Southern fiction / Carvel Collins -- William Faulkner and George Washington Harris: in the tradition of Southwestern humor / M. Thomas Inge -- Tidewater and frontier / Randall Stewart -- Suggs and Sut in modern dress: the latest chapter in Southern humor / Willard Thorp -- 5. Bibliography: Humor of the old Southwest: a checklist of criticism / Charles E. Davis and Martha B. Hudson. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| 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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Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
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Frontier and pioneer life in literature. |
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Popular culture -- Southern States.
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Popular culture. |
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Popular culture -- Southwest, Old.
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Southwest, Old -- In literature.
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Southern States -- Humor.
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| Genre/Form |
Humor.
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| Subject |
Southwest, Old -- Humor.
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| Genre/Form |
Humor.
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| Added Author |
Inge, M. Thomas.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Frontier humorists. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1975 (OCoLC)643696264 |
| ISBN |
0208015094 |
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9780208015099 |
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