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OLD SERIES
Volume I, Number 1: April 1974
Editor's Note
Jack Meathenia
Louis J. Budd
Josh Billings on Lecturing and Humor: Some Recently Discovered Letters
David B. Kesterson
William R. Linneman
Craig Challender
Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales by G. R. Thompson
J. Gerald Kennedy
The Schlemiel as Modern Hero by Ruth R. Wisse
Clifford J. Ronan
The Humor of the American Cowboy by Stan Hoig
Donald L. Clarke
Veins of Humor edited by Harry Levin
Jack Meathenia
Comic Terror: The Novels of John Hawkes by Donald J. Greiner
J. J. Johnson
The Comic Imagination in American Literature edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
M. Thomas Inge
Volume I, Number 2: October 1974
Marvin E. Mengeling
James W. Clark, Jr.
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
James G. Janssen
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
Volume I, Number 3: January 1975
Walter Blair
A Particular Kind of Joking: Burlesque, Vaudeville, and Nathanael West
I. Lloyd Michaels
Pathos with a Chuckle: The Tragicomic Vision in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Charlene Kerne Clark
Molly Best Tinsley
The Triple Thrust of Satire in Melville's Short Stories: Society, the Narrator, and the Reader
R. Bruce Bickley, Jr.
Volume II, Number 1: April 1975
Special Issue in Honor of Walter Blair
Hamlin Hill
Richard E. Amacher
John C. Gerber
William M. Gibson
James F. Light
Matthew Little
John O. Rosenbalm
Volume II, Number 2: October 1975
James M. Haule
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.
Jean F. Beranger
Joseph Weixlmann
Arlin Turner
M. Thomas Inge
David E. E. Sloane
Irreverent Pilgrims: Melville, Browne and Mark Twain in the Holy Land by Franklin Walker
John T. Smith
Melville and the Art of Burlesque by Joseph Flibbert
Charles N. Watson, Jr.
The Frontier Humorists: Critical Views edited by M. Thomas Inge
John Q. Reed
Henry James and the Comic Form by Ronald Wallace
Norris Yates
Volume II, Number 3: January 1976
Editor's Notes
Louis J. Budd
David E. E. Sloane
Robert Regan
Alan Gribben
Of Detectives and Their Derring-Do: The Genesis of Mark Twain's "The Stolen White Elephant"
Howard G. Baetzhold
The Useful and the Useless River: Life on the Mississippi Revisited
Stanley Brodwin
Sherwood Cummings
Volume III, Number 1: April 1976
Jesse Bier
William R. Linneman
Marion Barber Stowell
Comedy and America: The Lost World of Washington Irving by Martin Roth
E. G. Cone
Humor
in America: An Anthology edited by Enid
Vernon
Karl Ames
Volume III, Number 2: October, 1976
Special Issue in Honor of Arlin Turner
Jack Meathenia
"A Well-Intended Halfness": Emerson's View of Leaves of Grass
Jerome Loving
J. Gerald Kennedy
Milton Rickels
Charles N. Watson, Jr.
The Uses of Enchantment in Frontier Humor and The Robber Bridegroom
Merrill Maguire Skaggs
John Harmon McElroy
Mary Ann Wimsatt
Volume III, Number 3: January 1977
Mary Ann Wimsatt
William Coyle
David B. Kesterson
Panning for Gold: Researching Humor in the Spirit of the Times
Richard Boyd Hauck and Dean Margaret Hauck
Mary Ann Wimsatt
William Peirce Randel
Thomas F. Gossett
Volume 1 [New Series], Number 1: June 1982
Special Issue in Honor of Jack Meathenia
John O. Rosenbalm
John O. Rosenbalm
Louis J. Budd
Walter Blair
Alan Gribben
David B. Kesterson
"This is My Place": The Short Films Made from Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction
Jane Elizabeth Archer
Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas: Death and Transfiguration
William Bedford Clark
Volume 1 [New Series], Number 2: October, 1982
Leland Krauth
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
Kay Moser
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
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
Volume 1 [New Series], Number 3: February, 1983
Some Echoes of English Literature in Frontier Vernacular Humor
John Q. Rees
Merrill M. Skaggs
Sensuality, Revenge, and Freedom: Women in Sut Lovingood's Yarns
William E. Lenz
Thalia Pops Her Girdle: Humor in the Novels of Peter De Vries
D. G. Kehl
David W. Hiscoe
Critical Approaches to Mark Twain’s Short Stories edited by Elizabeth McMahan
Peter A. Scholl
Ben Franklin Laughing: Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Ben Franklin edited by P. M. Zall
Merrill M. Skaggs
Washington Irving by May Weatherspoon Bowden
William Bedford Clark
Volume 2 [New Series], Number 1: Spring 1983
Special Issue Honoring Thomas Berger (Part 1)
Observations from a Correspondence: Letters from Thomas Berger
Zulfikar Ghose
Michael Malone
Myron Simon
Alien Encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors
as a Critique of Existential Humanism
John Carlos Rowe
The Whole Kit
and Caboodle: Language as Irony in Thomas Berger's Neighbors and
Sneaky People
Brooks Landon
Thomas Berger's
"Joyful! Worship" A Study of Form and Parody
Jean P. Moore
Volume 2 [New Series], Number 2 Fall 1983
Special issue Honoring Thomas Berger (Part 2)
Max F Schulz
The World According to Carl Reinhart: Thomas Berger's Comic Vision
Sanford Pinsker
Ronald R. Janssen
The Kraft of Fiction: Nomenclatural Vandalism in Who is Teddy Villanova?
Philip Kuberski
David W. Madden
James Bense
Volume 2 [New Series], Number 3 Winter 1983–84
Carl Brucker
Horace Perry Jones
"The Innocent Cause, Or How Snoring Broke Off a Match" A Sketch from the Dutch Fork School of Humor
Jim Kibler
George Washington Harris's New York Atlas Series: Three New Items
Ben Harris McClary
Edgar M. Branch
Mark Twain and Hunter Thompson: Continuity and Change in American "Outlaw Journalism"
Jeffrey Steinbrink
The Political Cartoon by Charles Press
Miriam J. Shillingsburg
Discovering the Comic by George McFadden
Andrew Tadie
Melville's Humor: A Critical Study by Jane Mushabac
Carl Brucker
Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi" by Horst H. Kruse
John Wenke
Volume 3 [New Series], Number 1 Spring 1984
Special Issue The New Yorker from 1925 to 1950
David B. Kesterson
Steven H. Gale
Thomas Grant
Notes Towards a Definition of Robert Benchley's 1930s New Yorker Humor
Eric Solomon
S. J. Perelman: A Portrait of the Artist as an Aging New Yorker Humorist
Sanford Pinsker
Louis Hasley
M. Thomas Inge
Don Hausdorff
Sarah Toombs
Volume 3 [New Series], Numbers 2&3 Summer, Fall 1984
Humor in Economic Depressions
Jay Martin
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
William R. Linneman
"What Do They Know in Pittsburgh?" American Comic Film in the Great Depression
Joanna E. Rapf
Eric Solomon
The Great Depression Humor of Galbraith, Leacock, and Mencken
John W. Baer
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
Volume 3 [New Series], Number 4: Winter 1984–85
A Bibliography of Frontier Humor in the St. Louis Daily Reveille, 1844–1846
Fritz Oehlschlaeger
Irving's "Mount Joy": Philosophy in the Comic Mode
Donald A. Ringe
Sherwood Anderson's Buck Fever, or Frontier Humor Comes to Town
Leland Krauth
Mark Twain's Two-Headed Novel: Racial Symbolism and Social Realism in Pudd'nhead Wilson
Dorothy Berkson
Bald-Head Bill Bauldy: Simms' Unredeemed Captive
Stephen E. Meats
Naturalist Humor in Will Cuppy's How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes
Al Castle
The Function of Simile in Raymond Chandler's Novels
Stephen L. Tanner
Review Essay
John Punterick: A Novel of Life in the Old Dutch Fork by Orlando Benedict Mayer and edited by James E. Kibler, The Dutch Fork by O. B. Mayer and edited by James E. Kibler, Fireside Tales: Stories of the Old Dutch Fork edited by James E. Kibler
Stephen E. Meats
Reviews
Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about
Abraham Lincoln edited by P. M. Zall
Kathleen O'Gorman
The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s
by Charles Scruggs
Carl Brucker
Thurber's Anatomy of Confusion by Catherine McGeehee Kenney
Peter A. Scholl
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet by Kimball King Boston
Edward J. Piacentino
Volume 4 [New Series], Numbers 1&2: Spring, Summer 1985
Special Issue on Women's Humor
Preface
M. Thomas Inge
Forbidden Jokes and Naughty Ladies
Emily Toth
Sentiment and Humor: A Double-Pronged Attack on Women's Place in
Nineteenth-Century America
Zita R. Dresner
Mary Noeilles Murfree's "Special" Sense of Humor
Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV
Political and Social Consciousness in the Woman Suffrage Cartoons of Lou Rogers and Nina Allender
Alice Sheppard
Mother Wit: Humor in Afro-American Women's Autobiography
Lucinda H. MacKethan
The Different Humor of Shirley Jackson: Life Among the Savages
and Raising Demons
Anne LeCroy
Woman's Sense of the Ludicrous in John Barth's "Dunyazadiad"
Gabriella Bedetti
Why Are These Women Laughing? The Power and Politics of Women's Humor
Suzanne L Bunkers
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Apocalypse: Laurie Anderson and
Women's Performance Art
Kathryn Van Spanckeren
Agelaste or Eiron: American Women Writers and the Sense of Humor
Nancy Walker
Volume 4 [New Series], Number 3: Fall 1985
Special Section American Literary Humor and Film
Introduction
G. Jack Gravitt
"Plastics": The Graduate as Film and Novel
Pete Fairchild
Around the World in Eighty Ways: S. J. Perelman as Screenwriter
Steven Gale
Laughing at Length: Notes on the Structure of Film Comedy
Thomas M. Leitch
Comic Triumph in George Roy Hill's Adaptation of John Irving's The World According to Garp
Andrew Horton
Checklist
David Middleton
Tygers' Harts in Players' Hydes: Actors Writing Poetry
Sam Gwynn
Preston Sturges and American Comedy Theatre
Tim Gamod
Review
Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas by Don Graham
Joyce Glover Lee
Volume 4 [New Series], Number 4: Winter 1985–86
Garrison Keillor and the News from Lake Woebegon
Peter Scholl
Franklin's Perfumed Proposer
Wayne Glowa
Humor and the Muse in Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer
Kathy Rugoff
Confederate Disciples of Momus: The Bugle-Horn of Liberty and
Southern Punch
Edward J. Piacentino
A Bibliography of Frontier Humor in the St. Louis Daily Reveille, 1847–1850
Fritz Oehlschlaeger
The Humor of Longstreet's Persona Abram Baldwin in Georgia Scenes
Wilson Snipes
Joseph Gault, Cobb County Humorist
Stephen Meats
Volume 5 [New Series], Number 1: Spring 1985
Deadpan Emotionalized: American Humor in a German Translation of Mark Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee"
Birget Wetzel-Sahm
Aunt Polly's Predicament
Trygve Thoreson
The Violence and Language of Swapping Lies: Towards a Definition of the American Tall Tale
James E. Caron
Language as Self-Defense in Who is Teddy Villanova?
Jon Wallace
Emperors and Little Empires: The Schoolmaster in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
George W. Crandall
Four Comic Themes in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
James T. F. Tanner
Newly Discovered Reprintings of G. W. Harris's Tales and Letters
Janet Galligani Casey
Reviews
Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s edited by Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner; A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture by Nancy Walker
Priscilla Leder
Texas Vulgar, Texas Legend? Fast Copy by Dan Jenkins
Clay Reynolds
The Eight Corners of the World by Gordon Weaver
Clay Reynolds
Samantha Rastles the Woman Question edited by Jane Curry
Shelly Armitage
Volume 5 [New Series], Numbers 2&3: Summer, Fall 1986
Of Steaks, Compliments, and Death in Glendon Swarthout's Cactus League
David L. Vanderwerken
Chimerical Realities: Black Humor in The Mysterious Stranger
Patricia M. Mandia
The South and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Hugh Ruppersburg
Ferrol Sams and "His Majesty the Ego"
Lewis Lawson
"Seeing the Elephant": Doesticks' Satires of Nineteenth-Century Gotham
Edward J. Piacentino
An Anatomy of Mr. Dooley's Brogue
John Rees
Humor and the Techniques of Humor in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
Ian Marshall
Mark Twain's Creation Myths: "Captain Stormfield" and Letters from the Earth
Joseph B. McCullough and Donald Malcolm McCullough
Woody Allen's Lovably Anxious Schlemiels
Sanford Pinsker
Groucho Lost and Found: His Other Letters
Wes D. Gehring
Reviews
Long Years of Neglect: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms edited by Jim C. Guilds
Flannery O'Connor: A Study of the Short Fiction by Suzanne Morrow Paulson
Frederick Asals
At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia by Miriam Jones Shillingsburg
Francis V. Madigan
The Man from Lake Wobegon by Michael Fedo
Peter A. Scholl
Volume 5 [New Series], Number 4: Winter 1986–87
Special Issue Humor in Children's Literature
Introduction: A Few Words of Grace
Mary-Agnes Taylor
The Comedians of Oz
Celia Catlett Anderson
The Wit of E. L Konigsburg: To "One Dog Squatting" from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
Kipling's Humor—in All Its Promiscuous Parts
Rebecca Lukens
The Weirdness of Shel Silverstein
Ruth MacDonald
The Book That Scarry Built: Being in Part a Discourse on the Importance of the Role of Children in Children's Literature
Clay Reynolds
A Merger of Traditions: Sources of Comedy in Roben McClosky's Homer Price Stories
Gary D. Schmidt
Me Parece Que Aqui Algo No Ested Bien: Incongruity As the Basis of Children's Humor
Ann Vliet
A Coon Alphabet and the Comic Mask of Racial Prejudice
Elvin Holt
Volume 6 [New Series] 1988
SPECIAL SECTION: HUMOR IN AMERICAN POETRY
Introduction
James T. F. Tanner
Humorous American Poets: How to Distinguish the Best from the Worst
Don L. F. Nilsen
Puritan Humor in Seventeenth-Century American Poetry: Sarcasm as Consequence of the Persecution Complex
James T. F. Tanner
Republican Rhymes: Constitutional Controversy and the Democratization of the Verse Satire, 1786–1799
Judith Yaross Lee
Revolutionary Dialogics in American Mock-Epic Poetry: Double-Voicing in M'Fingal, The Anarchiad, and The Hasty -Pudding
Constance J. Post
Robert Frost's "New Hampshire": A Most Jestful State
William R. Linneman
Vers de Societe and the Philosophy of Moral Sentiment in Postbellum America
Allene Cooper
Laughing at Logic: The August Humor of Wallace Stevens
Jerry Bradley
Camping Up the Canon: Jack Spicer's Subaltern Wit
Maria Damon
Russell Edson's Humor: Absurdity in a Surreal World
Donald E. Hardy
Humor in American Poetry: A Highly Selected Checklist of Recent Scholarship and Criticism
James T. F. Tanner
Food and Sex in Berger's Rex
Klaus P. Jankofsky
The "Devil" in Mr. Bierce
N. J. C. Vasantkamar
Narrative Strategies in Garrison Keillor's ‘Lake Wobegon’ Stories
Michael Kline
Woody Allen and the Comic Tradition In America
Karen C. Blancfield
The Humor of the Old Northeast: Barnum, Burnham, and the Hen Fever
David E. E. Sloane
Review
Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor by John Gatta
James T. F. Tanner
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
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
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