Volume 7 [New Series] 1989

CONTENTS

A Reading of Mr. Dooley
   
John O. Rees
A Reader's Guide to P. G. Wodehouse's America
   Deepika Karle
On the Background and the Significance of Thurber's "Seal in the Bedroom" Cartoon
   Richard Raskin
Absentee Government, the Absurd Frontier, and the Laughable Origins of American Identity; or, The Twice-Told Fish Tale of Captain John Smith
    Thomas J. Haslam  
Childhood or Childishness: Wallace Markfield and Jewish Nostalgia/Sentimentalism
  
Eric Solomon
Sanitation and Its Discontents: Refuse and Refusal in Donald Barthelme's Snow White
   Jay Berman Montresor
"Inside Benchley: The Early Dairies
   Wes D. Gehrig

REVIEWS

Garrison Keillor:  A Voice of America by Judith Yaross Lee
   Peter A. Scholl
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": by David E. E. Sloane
   June Chase Hankins
Selling America: Puns, Language, and Advertising by Michel Monnot
Puns by Walter Redfern
    Thomas E. Murray