| The
Editor’s Drawers |
iii |
Recovering
New Humor: Negotiations of Class
Karen
L. Kilcup |
1 |
Witty Words,
Moral Lessons: Ambrose Bierce's Write it Right
Peter
Kratzke |
5 |
Fanny Fern,
Performative Incivilities and Rap
Joyce
W. Warren |
17 |
The “Neurotic
Giggle”: Humor in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline
O'Connor |
37 |
Making Hay
of the Yellow Wallpaper: “The Boveopathic Sanatorium”
Proposes A New Remedy for Neurasthenia
Ellen
Gruber Garvey
|
49 |
The New England
Humor of George Savary Wasson (1855-1932)
Cameron Nickels
|
61 |
The Year’s
Work in American Humor Studies, 1998
Judith Yaross
Lee
|
71 |
| Reviews |
|
The Humor
Prism in 20th-Century America, edited by Joseph Boskin
Reviewed by
Bruce Michelson |
81 |
What’s
So Funny? Humor in American Culture, edited by Nancy A. Walker
Reviewed by
Joseph B. McCullough |
82 |
New Directions
in American Humor Studies, edited by David E. E. Sloane
Reviewed
by John Bird |
83 |
Mark
Twain at the Buffalo Express: Articles and Sketches by America’s
Favorite Humorist,
edited by Joseph B. McCullough and Janice McIntire-Strasburg
Reviewed
by L. Terry Oggel |
85 |
Redeeming
Laughter: The Comic Dimension of the Human Experience, by Peter
Berger
Reviewed
by Michael J. Kiskis |
87 |
Personality
Comedians as Genre: Selected Players, by Wes D. Gehring
Reviewed
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
|
89 |
| Contributors
|
91 |
| Announcements
|
92 |