On Humor

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