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Language: en
Pages: 616
Pages: 616
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press
"For more than a quarter-century, despite the admirable excavations that have unearthed such humorists as John Gorman Barr and Marcus Lafayette, the most signif
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-01 - Publisher: LSU Press
The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the televisio
Language: en
Pages: 329
Pages: 329
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-31 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
With contributions by Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O'Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Pi
Language: en
Pages: 359
Pages: 359
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-12 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himse
Language: en
Pages: 247
Pages: 247
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-20 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new mil
