Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, No. 1 (1994)

 

Contents

Melville, Twain and Quixote: Variations on the Comic Debate
          John Bryant
1
"Who will read the book, Samantha?": Marietta Holley and the
19th Century Reading Public
          Gwendolyn B. Gwathmy
28
Thurber's Fables for Our Time: A Case Study in Satirical Use
of Great Chain Metaphor
          Douglas Sun
51
Disney's Cinderella Under Cover: Heads, Butts, Toes, and Gender Woes
          Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien
62
Levity and Gravity in Twain: The Bipolar Dynamics of the Early Tales
          Peter Gibian
80
The Artist as Accidental Tourist in Gilbert Sorrentino's Blue Pastoral
          Jaye Berman Montressor
95
State of American Humor 1993
          Erika Tyner
 
104
Notes
Mark Twain's Earliest London Lecture: Three Known Reports
          Kevin Hayes
 
116
Reviews
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, by Eric Lott
          Reviewed by Charles Mitchell
120
New England Humor: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, by Cameron C. Nickels
          Reviewed by Henry B. Wonham
124
Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Boy, a Book, and a Man, by Tom Quirk
          Reviewed by Abby H.P. Werlock
127
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale, by Henry B. Wonham
          Reviewed by Laura Skandera-Trombley
132

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