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- catalog abstract "Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris is the first collection of critical commentary and new scholarship to be published on the east Tennessee, antebellum comic writer who was famous for creating the character of Sut Lovingood. The collection both recognizes and reconfirms the status of Harris as one of the most important antebellum comic writers by bringing together new essays with essential biographical information and representative commentary from the past. Anyone wishing to understand Harris and his place within the tradition of American humor will want to read this book. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Harris (1814-1869) spent most of his life in Knoxville, Tennessee. He served as captain on a Tennessee River steamboat, tried his hand at large-scale farming, and operated a metal working and jewelry shop. While on the farm he began to experiment with a variety of literary forms, and by 1854 he introduced Sut Lovingood, a youthful and "nat'ral born durn'd fool" from Tennessee. Throughout the 1850s Harris created a variety of adventures for Sut that were extremely popular and often reprinted. Many of these Sut stories were included in his only book collection (Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool"), which was first published in 1867 and remained continuously in print until 1925. In his masterful use of dialect, striking control of metaphor and imagery, and the creation of explosive action, Harris was to have no match until Mark Twain and William Faulkner, both of whom read Harris with great appreciation.".
- catalog contributor b9351891.
- catalog contributor b9351892.
- catalog coverage "Tennessee In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Tennessee Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Harris (1814-1869) spent most of his life in Knoxville, Tennessee. He served as captain on a Tennessee River steamboat, tried his hand at large-scale farming, and operated a metal working and jewelry shop. While on the farm he began to experiment with a variety of literary forms, and by 1854 he introduced Sut Lovingood, a youthful and "nat'ral born durn'd fool" from Tennessee. Throughout the 1850s Harris created a variety of adventures for Sut that were extremely popular and often reprinted. Many of these Sut stories were included in his only book collection (Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool"), which was first published in 1867 and remained continuously in print until 1925. In his masterful use of dialect, striking control of metaphor and imagery, and the creation of explosive action, Harris was to have no match until Mark Twain and William Faulkner, both of whom read Harris with great appreciation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris is the first collection of critical commentary and new scholarship to be published on the east Tennessee, antebellum comic writer who was famous for creating the character of Sut Lovingood. The collection both recognizes and reconfirms the status of Harris as one of the most important antebellum comic writers by bringing together new essays with essential biographical information and representative commentary from the past. Anyone wishing to understand Harris and his place within the tradition of American humor will want to read this book.".
- catalog description "[1.] Historical background: The life of George Washington Harris (1947) / Donald Day -- Sudden and mysterious death (1869) / Anonymous -- The real Sut (1955) / Ben Harris McClary -- [2.] The critical tradition: New publications (1867) / Anonymous -- New books (1867) / Anonymous -- Sut Lovingood (1867) / Mark Twain -- George Washington Harris (1907) / J. Thompson Brown, Jr. -- Sut Lovingood's yarns (1909) / George F. Mellen -- George Washington Harris (1937) / Walter Blair -- Man in the open air (1941) / F.O. Matthiessen -- Poisoned! (1955) / Edmund Wilson -- A note on Edmund Wilson and George Washington Harris (1962) / Brom Weber -- The fool as point of view (1965) / Milton Rickels -- Sut and his illustrators (1967) / M. Thomas Inge -- Timon in Tennessee: the moral fervor of George Washington Harris (1970) / Elmo Howell -- The blind bull, human nature: Sut Lovingood and the damned human race (1978) / Noel Polk -- George Washington Harris and supernaturalism (1982) / Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV -- Sensuality, revenge, and freedom: women in Sut Lovingood yarns spun by a "nat'ral born durn'd fool" (1983) / William E. Lenz -- Sut Lovingood: a "nat'ral born durn'd yarnspinner" (1987) / Carolyn S. Brown -- [3.] New perspectives: A tribute to Harris's Sheriff Doltin sequence / tHershel Parker -- Seeing Sutly: visual and verbal play in the work of George Washington Harris / Shelley Armitage -- Propriety, society, and Sut Lovingood: vernacular gentility in action / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- Sut and his sisters: vernacular humor and genteel culture / Nancy A. Walker -- Playin' hell: Sut Lovingood as durn'd fool preacher / James E. Caron -- Uneasy laughter: Sut Lovingood -between Rip Van Winkle and Andrew Dice Clay / Sanford Pinsker -- A bibliography of George Washington Harris / M. Thomas Inge.".
- catalog extent "xii, 330 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sut Lovingood's nat'ral born yarnspinner.".
- catalog identifier "0817308210 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sut Lovingood's nat'ral born yarnspinner.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,".
- catalog relation "Sut Lovingood's nat'ral born yarnspinner.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee".
- catalog subject "813/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Dialect literature, American Tennessee History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Harris, George Washington, 1814-1869 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Humorous stories, American Tennessee History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Lovingood, Sut (Fictitious character) Bibliography.".
- catalog subject "Lovingood, Sut (Fictitious character)".
- catalog subject "PS1799.H87 Z88 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "[1.] Historical background: The life of George Washington Harris (1947) / Donald Day -- Sudden and mysterious death (1869) / Anonymous -- The real Sut (1955) / Ben Harris McClary -- [2.] The critical tradition: New publications (1867) / Anonymous -- New books (1867) / Anonymous -- Sut Lovingood (1867) / Mark Twain -- George Washington Harris (1907) / J. Thompson Brown, Jr. -- Sut Lovingood's yarns (1909) / George F. Mellen -- George Washington Harris (1937) / Walter Blair -- Man in the open air (1941) / F.O. Matthiessen -- Poisoned! (1955) / Edmund Wilson -- A note on Edmund Wilson and George Washington Harris (1962) / Brom Weber -- The fool as point of view (1965) / Milton Rickels -- Sut and his illustrators (1967) / M. Thomas Inge -- Timon in Tennessee: the moral fervor of George Washington Harris (1970) / Elmo Howell -- The blind bull, human nature: Sut Lovingood and the damned human race (1978) / Noel Polk -- George Washington Harris and supernaturalism (1982) / Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV -- Sensuality, revenge, and freedom: women in Sut Lovingood yarns spun by a "nat'ral born durn'd fool" (1983) / William E. Lenz -- Sut Lovingood: a "nat'ral born durn'd yarnspinner" (1987) / Carolyn S. Brown -- [3.] New perspectives: A tribute to Harris's Sheriff Doltin sequence / tHershel Parker -- Seeing Sutly: visual and verbal play in the work of George Washington Harris / Shelley Armitage -- Propriety, society, and Sut Lovingood: vernacular gentility in action / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- Sut and his sisters: vernacular humor and genteel culture / Nancy A. Walker -- Playin' hell: Sut Lovingood as durn'd fool preacher / James E. Caron -- Uneasy laughter: Sut Lovingood -between Rip Van Winkle and Andrew Dice Clay / Sanford Pinsker -- A bibliography of George Washington Harris / M. Thomas Inge.".
- catalog title "Sut Lovingood's nat'ral born yarnspinner : essays on George Washington Harris / edited by James E. Caron and M. Thomas Inge.".
- catalog type "Bibliography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".