The humor of the Old South
By: edited by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino.
Contributors: Inge, M. Thomas.; Piacentino, Edward J., 1945-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: American wit and humor -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American wit and humor -- Southwest, Old -- History and criticism; American wit and humor -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States; Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southwest, Old; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southwest, Old -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- In literature; Southwest, Old -- In literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Origins of the Humor of the Old South 13; title: JA. Leo Lemay; title: 2. "Sleepy Hollow" Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence; title: on Old Southwestern Humor 22; title: Ed Piacentino; title: 3. The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor:; title: Rereading Porter's Big Bear and Quarter Race Collections 36; title: William E. Lenz; title: 4. Contesting the Boundaries ofRace and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor 52; title: Ed Piacentino; title: 5. Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor 72; title: Scott Romine; title: Perspectives on Earlier Authors-1830-1860; title: ( 6. The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement; title: and Escape in Southwest Humor 87; title: Gretchen Martin; title: 7. Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain inB. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes 101; title: Kurt Albert Mayer; title: 8. A Biographical Reading ofA.B. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes 113; title: David Rachels; title: .A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson,; title: Hooper 130; title: Johanna Nicol Shields; title: 10. Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson; title: and the Major Jones Letters 154; title: David C. Estes; title: 11. Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became; title: a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles FM. Noland,; title: and William Tappan Thompson 161; title: James E. Caron; title: 12. Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor 187; title: Mary Ann Wimsat; title: 13. The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and "Human Natur"' 199; title: Edwin TArnold; title: The Literary Legacy; title: 14. An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark; title: American Humor of J. Ross Browne's Yusef 215; title: Joseph Csicsila; title: 15. Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor 222; title: Leland Krauth; title: 16. Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor; title: as Stream of Consciousness 236; title: Stephen M. Ross; title: 17. Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration 24;; title: R.J. Gray; title: Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography 263; title: Contributors 311; title: Index 313.