Volume 3 [New Series], Numbers 2&3 Summer, Fall 1984

Humor in Economic Depressions

Guest Editor, Jay Martin

Introduction
    Jay Martin
Laughter as a Strategy of Containment in Southwestern Humor
    Lorne Fienberg
Hard Times in the Sixth Ward: Mr. Dooley on the Depression of the 1890s
    James De Muth
The Mask of the Befuddled Professor, or, A Theory of The Theory of the Leisure Class
    William L. Hedges
Why Did the Snopeses Name Their Son "Wallstreet Panic"? Depression Humor in Faulkner's The Hamlet
    Andrea Dimino
Will Rogers and the Great Depression
    William R. Linneman
"What Do They Know in Pittsburgh?" American Comic Film in the Great Depression
    Joanna E. Rapf
Eustace Tilley Sees the Thirties Through a Glass Monocle, Lightly: New Yorker Cartoonists and the Depression Years
    Eric Solomon
The Great Depression Humor of Galbraith, Leacock, and Mencken
    John W. Baer
S. J. Perelman: "The Keenest Hatred Of Chickens"
    Steven H. Gale
"The black, memorable year 1929": James Thurber and the Great Depression
    Robert D. Arner
A Checklist of American Humor Relating to Economic Depression
    Dale Salwal