| 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 |