The comic tradition in America
By: An anthology ed. with foreword and notes by Kenneth S. Lynn
Series: Norton library; Norton library
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1968
Place of publication: N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Wit and humor; American literature; American wit and humor
Notes: Internet Archive - 2

Internet Archive 2
Table of contents: title: To the editor of the New England Courant ;; title: To the editor of a newspaper ;; title: Dialogue between Franklin and the gout  -- Benjamin Franklin; title: Containing the most horrible battle ever recorded in poetry or prose ;; title: Rip Van Winkle. A posthumous writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker ;; title: Adventure of the German student  -- Washington Irving; title: Georgia theatrics ;; title: Fight ;; title: Horse-swap  -- A.B. Longstreet; title: Major Downing shakes hands for the President at Philadelphia ;; title: Cousin Nabby describes the unutterable disappointment at Downingville ;; title: Major Downing tells about going to Cambridge and making the President a doctor of laws  -- Seba Smith; title: Simon Suggs attends a camp-meeting  -- Johnson J. Hooper; title: Big bear of Arkansas  -- T.B. Thorpe; title: How to write a Blackwood article ;; title: Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Death of Crockett ;; title: Crockett's morning hunt  -- Davy Crockett; title: The Lion of the West: act II, scene 2  -- James Kirke Paulding; title: What Mr. Robinson thinks ;; title: Second letter from B. Sawin, Esq. ;; title: The courtin'  -- James Russell Lowell; title: Simon Suggs, Jr., Esq., of Rackinsack-Arkansaw  -- Joseph G. Baldwin; title: Parson John Bullen's lizards ;; title: Mrs. Yardley's quilting  -- George W. Harris; title: Celestial railroad  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Cock-a-doodle-doo! or the crowing of the noble cock Beneventano ;; title: Israel is initiated into the mysteries of lodging  -- Herman Melville; title: Expensive treat of Colonel Moses Grice  -- Richard Malcolm Johnston; title: Uncle Remus initiates the little boy ;; title: Uncle Remus's wonder story  -- Joel Chandler Harris; title: Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ;; title: Whittier dinner speech ;; title: Frescoes from the past ;; title: Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses  -- Mark Twain; title: Point of view  -- Henry James; title: On war preparations ;; title: On his cousin George ;; title: On reform candidates ;; title: Expansion ;; title: Book review -- Finley Peter Dunne.