Studies in American Humor

Special Issue: Early and Antebellum American Humor

Karen A. Weyler, Guest Editor
Rachael Mann, Guest Editorial Assistant

New Series 3, No. 11 (2004)

 

Contents

Editorial
The Editor's Drawers            Karen L. Kilcup	1
Gender and Humor in Early America           Karen A. Weyler	3
Essays
The Nineteenth-Century Female Humorist as "Iconoclast in the Temple": Gail Hamilton and the Myth of Reviewers' Dissaproval of Women's Comic-Ironis Writings           Erika M. Kreger	5
Playing Like a Man: Noncompetitive Manhood and Frontier Humor           Scott Romine	39
The Recovery Room
"Dear Matron--": Constructions of Women in Eighteenth-Century American Periodical Advice Columns           Lisa M. Logan	57
A Muse of Their Own: The Satirical Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Feminists          Paula Bernat Bennett	63
The Year's Work
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2003           Judith Yaross Lee	73
Reviews
Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations           by Leland Krauth: Reviewed by Jon Bird	93
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography           by Fred Kaplan. Reviewed by Joseph Csicsila	94
Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism           by Henry B. Wonham. Reviewed by Kelly Richardson	97
Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor           by Mikita Brottman. Reviewed by Gretchen Martin	99
Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education           by Doris Sommer. Revewed by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary	102
Contributors	105

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