Civil War humor [[electronic resource] /] / Cameron C. Nickels
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| Autore: |
Nickels Cameron C
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| Titolo: |
Civil War humor [[electronic resource] /] / Cameron C. Nickels
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, Miss., : University Press of Mississippi, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 817/.409358731 |
| Soggetto topico: | American wit and humor - History and criticism |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Humor |
| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Humor and the Civil War presidents -- Humor on the home front -- Civil War, war humor -- The African American in Civil War humor. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations, political cartoons, fiction, light verse, paper dolls, printed envelopes, and penny dreadfuls--from and for the Union and the Confederacy--are analyzed at length.Nickels argues that the war coincided with the rise of inexpensive mass printing in the United States and thus subsequently with |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Civil War humor |
| ISBN: | 1-62103-210-8 |
| 1-282-82131-8 | |
| 9786612821318 | |
| 1-60473-748-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791678003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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