Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, No. 12

 

Contents

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Calvinist Humor
          Michael Dunne
1
A Splinter off the "Sound Old Theological Block": Grace Greenwood's
Humorous Revision of the American Jeremiad
          Paula K. Garrett
  
17
Special Section
Defying Limits: Subversive Humor in the Texts of American Minorities and Women
45
Humorous Subversions
          Ed Piacentino
47
Lords (and Ladies) of Misrule: Carnival, Scandal, and Satire in the Age of Andrew Jackson
          Jeff Smith
53
"A Slave in Form but Not in Fact": Subversive Humor adn the Rhetoric of Irony
in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
          
Mark K. Burns
83
"Shaking That Thing" and All Its Wonders: African American Female Comedy
          Carol Allen
  
97
Review Essay:
Southwest Humor's Magnum Opus
Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writings from Longstreet to Twain
          
by James H. Justus. Revewed by Ed Piacentino
121
Contributors
131
Announcement
132

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