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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Origins and Influences | ||
| 1 | The Origins of the Humor of the Old South | 13 |
| 2 | "Sleepy Hollow" Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor | 22 |
| 3 | The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's Big Bear and Quarter Race Collections | 36 |
| 4 | Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor | 52 |
| 5 | Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor | 72 |
| Perspectives on Earlier Authors - 1830-1860 | ||
| 6 | The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor | 87 |
| 7 | Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A. B. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes | 101 |
| 8 | A Biographical Reading of A. B. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes | 113 |
| 9 | A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper | 130 |
| 10 | Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and the Major Jones Letters | 154 |
| 11 | Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F. M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson | 161 |
| 12 | Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor | 187 |
| 13 | The Good Doctor: O. B. Mayer and "Human Natur'" | 199 |
| The Literary Legacy | ||
| 14 | An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's Yusef | 215 |
| 15 | Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor | 222 |
| 16 | Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness | 236 |
| 17 | Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration | 247 |
| Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography | 263 | |
| Contributors | 311 | |
| Index | 313 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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David Madden
reviewed The Humor of the Old South on October 04, 2010
The Humor of the Old South
Also, Tony Kushner is a very interesting man. When he talks, he DOES NOT STOP.
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