LEADER 04354nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910791467203321 005 20230725015538.0 010 $a0-8262-7220-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015215 035 $a(EBL)3440746 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000428538 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291020 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428538 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10424160 035 $a(PQKB)10060076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440746 035 $a(OCoLC)868217769 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440746 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400604 035 $a(OCoLC)646066446 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015215 100 $a20100405d2010 ub h 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSouthern frontier humor$b[electronic resource] $ean anthology /$fedited by M. Thomas Inge and Ed Piacentino 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8262-1886-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 331-337). 327 $aAugustus Baldwin Longstreet -- Solomon Franklin Smith -- Charles F. M. Noland -- William Tappan Thompson -- George Washington Harris -- Johnson Jones Hooper -- Joseph Glover Baldwin -- Thomas Bangs Thorpe -- Henry Clay Lewis -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- David Crockett -- "Riproarious Shemales": legendary women of the Crockett almanacs -- Joseph Gault -- James Edward Henry -- Hamilton C. Jones -- William Gilmore Simms -- Joseph M. Field -- Hardin E. Taliaferro -- John S. Robb -- Christopher Mason Haile -- Adam Geiselhard Summer -- Orlando Benedict Mayer -- William C. Hall -- Francis James Robinson -- Marcus Lafayette Byrn. 330 $aIf, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn , then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists' work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of humor from that region published in fifteen years-and the first fresh selection of sketches and tales to appear in over forty years. Thomas Inge and Ed Piacentino bring their knowledge of and fondness for this genre to a collection that reflects the considerable body of scholarship that has been published on its major figures and the place of the movement in American literary history. They breathe new life into the subject, gathering a new selection of texts and adding Twain-the only major American author to contribute to and emerge from the movement-as well as several recently identified humorists. All of the major writers are represented, from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to Thomas Bangs Thorpe, as well as a great many lesser-known figures like Hamilton C. Jones, Joseph M. Field, and John S. Robb. The anthology also includes several writers only recently discovered to be a part of the tradition, such as Joseph Gault, Christopher Mason Haile, James Edward Henry, and Marcus Lafayette Byrn, and features authors previously overlooked, such as William Gilmore Simms, Ham Jones, Orlando Benedict Mayer, and Adam Summer. Selections are timely, reflecting recent trends in literary history and criticism sensitive to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity. The editors have also taken pains to seek out first printings to avoid the kinds of textual corruptions that often occur in later versions of these sketches. Southern Frontier Humor offers students and general readers alike a broad perspective and new appreciation of this singular form of writing from the Old South-and provides some chuckles along the way. 606 $aAmerican literature$zSouthwest, Old 606 $aAmerican wit and humor$zSouthwest, Old 607 $aSouthwest, Old$vLiterary collections 607 $aSouthwest, Old$vHumor 615 0$aAmerican literature 615 0$aAmerican wit and humor 676 $a810.8/0976 701 $aInge$b M. Thomas$01484754 701 $aPiacentino$b Edward J.$f1945-$01462982 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791467203321 996 $aSouthern frontier humor$93703547 997 $aUNINA