Studies in American Humor

Special Issue: Southern Humor

New Series 3, No. 10 (2003)

 

Contents

Editorial  
The Borders of Southern Humor
          Scott Romine
 
1
Essays  
A Different Kind of Reality: Reading the Humor of Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow?
          
Jennifer Andrews
5
The Fate of Humor in a Time of Civil and Cold War: Vanity Fair and Race
           Robert J. Scholnick
21
"It Was an Enchanting Region for War": West by South in Mark Twain's "A Private History of a Campaign that Failed"
          Barbara Ladd
43
The Comic Voice of James Edward Henry: Reclaiming Another Writer for the Tradition of Southwestern Humor
          Ed Piacentino
 
51
The Recovery Room  
The Forgotten World of Idora McClelland Moore's Betsy Hamilton Letters
          Kathryn McKee
65
Two Betsy Hamilton Letters
          Idora McClelland Moore
 
 
The Year's Work  
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2002
          Judith Yaross Lee
77
Reviews  
Engaging Humor, by Elliot Oring
          Reviewed by John Bird
89
Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford, by Kirby Olson
          Reviewed by Kelly Richardson
93
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic, by Darryl Hattenhauer
          Reviewed by Scott M. Still
95
Contribuors 97

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