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- catalog abstract "This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty-five years' most significant writing on the humor of the Old Southwest, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor.".
- catalog contributor b12050967.
- catalog contributor b12050968.
- catalog contributor b12050969.
- catalog coverage "Southern States In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Intellectual life.".
- catalog coverage "Southwest, Old In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Southwest, Old Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The origins of the humor of the Old South / J.A. Leo Lemay -- "Sleepy hollow" comes south : Washington Irving's influence on Old Southwestern humor / Ed Piacentino -- The function of women in Old Southwestern humor : rereading Porter's Big bear and Quarter race collections / William E. Lenz -- Contesting the boundaries of race and gender in Old Southwestern humor / Ed Piacentino -- Darkness visible : race and pollution in Southwestern humor / Scott Romine -- The prison house of gender : masculine confinement and escape in Southwest humor / Gretchen Martin -- Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's Georgia scenes / Kurt Albert Mayer -- A biographical reading of A.B. Longstreet's Georgia scenes / David Rachels -- A sadder Simon Suggs : freedom and slavery in the humor of Johnson Hooper / Johanna Nicol Shields -- Revising Southern humor : William Tappan Thompson and the Major Jones letters / David C. Estes -- Backwoods civility, or how the ring-tailed roarer became a gentle man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson / James E. Caron -- Bench and bar : Baldwin's lawyerly humor / Mary Ann Wimsat -- The good doctor : O.B. Mayer and "human natur'" / Edwin T. Arnold -- An Old Southwesterner abroad : cultural frontiers and the landmark American humor of J. Ross Browne's Yusef / Joseph Csicsila -- Mark Twain : The Victorian of Southwestern humor / Leland Krauth -- Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood : Southwestern humor as stream of consciousness / Stephen M. Ross -- Southwestern humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the comedy of frustration / R.J. Gray.".
- catalog description "This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty-five years' most significant writing on the humor of the Old Southwest, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor.".
- catalog extent "x, 321 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Humor of the Old South.".
- catalog identifier "0813121949 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Humor of the Old South.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Humor of the Old South.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, Old In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, Old Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, Old".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, Old.".
- catalog subject "817.009/975 21".
- catalog subject "American wit and humor 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American wit and humor Southern States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American wit and humor Southwest, Old History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Humorists, American Homes and haunts Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Humorists, American Homes and haunts Southwest, Old.".
- catalog subject "PS261 .I55 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "The origins of the humor of the Old South / J.A. Leo Lemay -- "Sleepy hollow" comes south : Washington Irving's influence on Old Southwestern humor / Ed Piacentino -- The function of women in Old Southwestern humor : rereading Porter's Big bear and Quarter race collections / William E. Lenz -- Contesting the boundaries of race and gender in Old Southwestern humor / Ed Piacentino -- Darkness visible : race and pollution in Southwestern humor / Scott Romine -- The prison house of gender : masculine confinement and escape in Southwest humor / Gretchen Martin -- Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's Georgia scenes / Kurt Albert Mayer -- A biographical reading of A.B. Longstreet's Georgia scenes / David Rachels -- A sadder Simon Suggs : freedom and slavery in the humor of Johnson Hooper / Johanna Nicol Shields -- Revising Southern humor : William Tappan Thompson and the Major Jones letters / David C. Estes -- Backwoods civility, or how the ring-tailed roarer became a gentle man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson / James E. Caron -- Bench and bar : Baldwin's lawyerly humor / Mary Ann Wimsat -- The good doctor : O.B. Mayer and "human natur'" / Edwin T. Arnold -- An Old Southwesterner abroad : cultural frontiers and the landmark American humor of J. Ross Browne's Yusef / Joseph Csicsila -- Mark Twain : The Victorian of Southwestern humor / Leland Krauth -- Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood : Southwestern humor as stream of consciousness / Stephen M. Ross -- Southwestern humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the comedy of frustration / R.J. Gray.".
- catalog title "The humor of the Old South / edited by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".