Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, No. 2 (1995)

 

Contents

Epic, Parody, and National Identity: George Washington in
Nineteenth-Century American Humor
           Linda S. Bergmann
1
The Coded Language of Female Quixotism
          Sevda Çaliskan
23
What if Poe's Humorous Tales Were Funny? Poe's "X-ing a Paragrab"
and Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee"
         Tom Quirk
36
An Allegory of North and South: Reading the Preface to Sut Lovingood.
Yarns Spun By A "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool"
          James E. Caron
49
Keeping Both Eyes Open: 'The Stolen White Elephant'
and Mark Twain's Humor
          Peter Messent
62
Seven Card Stud and the Scarlet Letter Writers
          Mark Axelrod
 
85
Note
The Frog and the Ram Redux: A Response to John Bryant
          Dennis W. Eddings

 
98
Reviews
Roughing It vol. 2 of The Works of Mark Twain, by Mark Twain
           Review by Pascal Covici, Jr.
102
Sentimental Twain: Samuel Clemens in the Maze of Moral Philosophy, by Gregg Camfield
          Review by Gwendolyn B. Gwathmey
108
Mark Twain in the Company of Women, by Laura E. Skandera-Trombley
          Joseph B. McCullough
112
Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy, by Sarah Blacher Cohen
          Elaine B. Safer
116
Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States: An International Bibliography
and Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada:
An International Biography
, by John A. Lent
          Review by Amy Kiste Nyberg
120

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