Volume I, Number 2:
October 1974
- The Crass
Humor of Irving's Diedrich Knickerbocker
- Marvin E.
Mengeling
- The Fugitive
Slave as Humorist
- James W. Clark,
Jr.
- The
Ambassadors: A Comedy of Musing and Manners
- Sarah Blacher
Cohen
- The Cowboy
Saint and the Indian Poet: The Comic Hero in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest
- Carol Pearson
- Catch-22
and Angry Humor: A Study of the Normative Values of Satire
- James Nagel
- The
"Dismal Merry-Making" in Hawthorne's Comic Vision
- James G. Janssen
Reviews
- Knave, Fool, and Genius: The
Confidence Man as He Appears in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
by Susan Kublmann
- Mary Ann Wimsatt
- Saul Bellow's Enigmatic
Laughter by Sarah Blacher Cohen
- Sharon Weinstein
- Tar Heel Laughter by
Richard Walser
- Peter L.
Abernethy
- A Cheerful Nihilism: Confidence
and the Absurd in American Humorous Fiction
- by Richard Boyd Hauck
- Helen Hanicak
- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler
Shaw) by David B. Kesterson
- Larry W. Cook
