Studies in American Humor

Special Issue: American Women's Humor

In Honor of Nancy A. Walker (1942-2000)

New Series 3, No. 9 (2002)

 

Contents

Editorial
Looking Forward, Looking Back: American Women's Humor in the Twenty-First Century
          Karen L. Kilcup
 
1
Essays
Nancy A. Walker: Courage, Humor, and Subversion
          Regina Barreca
5
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: Female Sentimentalists in the Marketplace, 1825-1850
          Paula Bernat Bennett
11
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun" and the Dilemma of the Woman Artist
          Susan K. Harris
27
Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs as Gossip Manual
          Gregg Camfield
39
Good Food, Great Friends, Cold Beer: The Domestic Humor of Mary Lasswell
          Linda A. Morris
55
"Whenever I open a book and see 'Hoot, mon,' I always close it immediately": Constance Fenimore Woolson's Humor
          Cheryl B. Torsney
 
69
The Recovery Room
The Woolson Caricatures
          Constance Fenimore Woolson; text by Kathleen J. Reich
83
Asheville Sketches
          Constance Fenimore Woolson; text by Kathleen J. Reich
 
84
The Year's Work
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2001
           Judith Yaross Lee
 
93
Reviews
The Humor of the Old South, ed. by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino
           Reviewed by John Bird
109
Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters: Women's Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835-1856, ed. by Michael A. Lofaro
          Reviewed by Kelly Richardson
112
Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship, ed. by Laura Skandera Trombley and Michael J. Kiskis
          Reviewed by Joseph Csicsila
115
The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study, by Peter Messent
          Reviewed by Tom Quirk
 
118
Contributors
121

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