Volume 1 [New Series], Number 2: October, 1982

Laughter in The Pioneers

    Leland Krauth

Sut's Travels with Dad

    Robert Micklus

The Allusive Mode, the Absurd and Black Humor in William Gaddis's The Recognitions

    Elaine B. Safer

Laughing Society to Scorn: The Domestic Farces of William Dean Howells

    Brenda Murphy

Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant

    Kay Moser

Review Essay

Aiming for the Middle: The Renown and Neglect of Don Marquis (Don Marquis by Lynn Lee), Bill Nye (Bill Nye by David B. Kesterson), and Frank Stockton (Frank Stockton by Henry L. Golemba)

    Carol Miller

Reviews

Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian by David E. E. Sloane

    David B. Kesterson

Cavorting on the Devil's Fork: The Pete Whetstone Letters of C. F. M. Nolan

edited by Leonard Williams

    Norman Yates