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From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.
List of contents
Series Introduction vii
Burlesques in Nineteenth-Century American Humor (1930 ) / Walter Blair 1
The Popularity of Nineteenth-Century American Humorists (1931) / Walter Blair 13
"The Gentleman from Pike" in Early California (1936) / G.R. MacMinn 33
Tragedy and Irony in
Knickerbocker's History (1940) / Charlton G. Laird 43
Hank Monk and Horace Greeley (1942) / Richard G. Lilliard 59
The Humorous Works of George W. Harris (1943) / Donald Day 68
Myth and Humor in the Uncle Remus Fables (1948) / Louise Dauner 84
The Birth and Death of a Satirist: Eugene Field and Chicago's Growing Pains (1951) / Robert A. Day 99
"Mr. Spirit" and
The Big Bear of Arkansas (1955) / Eugene Current-Garcia 112
The Imagery of George Washington Harris (1959) / Milton Rickels 127
The Meaning of Ring Lardner's Fiction (1960) / Howard W. Webb, Jr. 142
Aeolism in
Knickerbocker's A History of New York (1970) / David Durant 154
The Text, Tradition, and Themes of "The Big Bear of Arkansas" (1975) / J.A. Leo Lemay 168
Tall Tale, Tall Talk: Pursuing the Lie in Jacksonian Literature (1977) / Neil Schmitz 190
Cable's
The Grandissimes and the Comedy of Manners (1980) / Robert O. Stephens 211
The Comic Voice in Dreiser's Cowperwood Narrative (1981) / Jack E. Wallace 224
Colonel Noland of the
Spirit: The Voices of a Gentleman in Southwest Humor (1981) / Lorne Fienberg 240
From Whom the Bull Flows: Hemingway in Parody (1989) / James C. McKelly 254
Index 271
Notes on Contributors 275
About the author
Louis J. Budd is James B. Duke Professor of English, Emeritus at Duke University.
Edwin H. Cady is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Duke University.
