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Native American humor
- Title
- Native American humor / edited by Walter Blair.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Chandler Pub. Co., [1960]
- ©1960
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PN6161 .B633 1960 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Blair, Walter, 1900-1992
- Description
- 565 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Selected American humor, some excerpted.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- National characteristics, American
- American wit and humor > History and criticism
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- American wit and humor
- American literature
- Humoristische Literatur
- American wit and humor > Bibliography
- Humour américain > Histoire et critique
- Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
- USA
- Genre/Form
- American wit and humor.
- bibliographies.
- Bibliographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliographie.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography.
- Contents
- [Part 1] Down East humor, 1830-1867 -- The humor of the Farmer's almanac -- Jack Downing's letters and other documents -- The sayings of Sam Slick / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Passages from The Biglow papers / James Russell Lowell -- Mrs. Partington / B.P. Shillaber -- Widow Bedott's monologues / Frances M. Whitcher -- [Part 2] The humor of the old Southwest, 1830-1867 -- Tall talk -- Georgia scenes / Augustus Baldwin -- A tight race considerin' / Madison Tensas -- Simon Suggs / Johnson J. Hooper -- Georgia comedy / William Tappan Thompson -- The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe -- The standing candidate / John S. Robb -- Ovid Bolus, Esq. / Joseph G. Baldwin -- Comic happenings in Tennessee / George W. Harris -- The harp of a thousand strings / Henry Taliareffo Lewis -- [Part 3] Literary comedians, 1855-1900 -- Phoenixiana / George Horatio Derby -- The writings of Artemus Ward / Charles Farrar Browne -- Letters of Petroleum V. Nasby / David Ross Locke -- Orpheus C. Kerr's childhood / Robert Henry Newell -- Bill Arp's correspondence / Charles Henry Smith -- Josh Billings' meditations / Henry W. Shaw -- The haunted man / Bret Harte -- New Year's calls / Melville D. Landon -- Life in Danbury / J.M. Bailey -- Life in an odd corner / Charles Heber Clark -- The brakeman at church / Robert J. Burdette -- Bill Nye's adventures in politics / Edgar Wilson Nye -- Mr. Dooley to Mr. Hennessy / Finley Peter Dunne -- [Part 4] Local colorists, 1868-1900 -- In California / Bret Harte -- In the Middle West / Edward Eggleston -- Sam Lawson's New England stories / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Remus's Negro stories / Joel Chandler Harris -- [Part 5] Mark Twain, 1835-1910 -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The facts concerning the recent resignation -- European guides -- Baker's blue-jay yarn -- [Huck's visit to the raft].
- ISBN
- 0352153000 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 60015796
- OCLC
- ocm00525886
- 525886
- SCSB-119868
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library