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Title

Chicago's public wits : a chapter in the American comic spirit / edited, with commentaries, by Kenny J. Williams and Bernard Duffey.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1983.

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Additional Authors

• Williams, Kenny J. (Kenny Jackson), 1927-2003.
• Duffey, Bernard I., 1917-1994.

Description

xx, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Geschichte 1840-1983
• American wit and humor > Illinois > Chicago
• American wit and humor
• Satire
• Zeitung
• Anthologie
• Chicago (Ill.) > Humor
• Illinois > Chicago
• Chicago, Ill

Genre/Form

• Wit and Humor.
• humor.
• Humor.
• Humour.

Contents

• [Pt. 1] Early Chicago and the comic spirit. Political satire in early Chicago -- Two satires of the 1840s. The magician ; Issac N. Arnold: a satire in two cantos -- The Times and Tribune fight the Civil War. Song of the democracy -- selected for the Chicago Times ; The Abraham Laudamus ; On Abraham Lincoln ; The Times "defines" the Tribune ; The Tribune retaliates ; The Tribune defines a "democrat" -- "Laugh and the world laughs with you" -- Horatio Cooke. On Alexander Pope's famous line, "A little learning is a dangerous thing" -- A Civil War chaplain speaks to the lord. George Putnam Upton. Mrs. Grundy ; The old ; Muscular Christianity ; A trip to hell -- Franc B. Wilkie. Westside -- What damage hath been wrought by a cow? The Chicago Fire, 1871. Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin: from "Humors of the fire" -- Benjamin Franklin Taylor. Vicious animals -- Henry Ten Eyck White. A modern parable ; Obituary gems -- "Literary frolics" and other miscellanea from America and the Chicago Ledger. A proverb ; The mastodon's memory ; Folly as it flies ; Old and new -- an ancient rhyme and how it would be written now ; An incident ; A practical lullaby ; Deft definitions ; From "Cornfield philosophy" -- Defensive humor -- Zebina Eastman and Chicago Magazine. From "The editor's table" ; Noggs on progress -- Character sketches. The Boston girl ; The Boston matron ; From The Idle Born ; The Boston lady and the Chicago matron ; The speediest of them all? -- Chicagoans laugh at themselves. Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin: From Chicago and the Great Conflagration ; From the Chicago Ledger ; From America -- The rise of ethnic humor and disturbing laughter -- Charles H. Harris. Carl Pretzel ; Bollydicks ; Ruth und Naomi ; From The Wit and Wisdom of Carl Pretzel -- An American. I wish I was a foreigner -- J. William Pope. Don't neglect the bars -- Nineteeenth-century ethnic jokes: a sampler --
• [Pt. 2] The heyday. Eugene Field. From "An auto-analysis" ; From The Complete Tribune Primer ; From "Sharps and flats" -- Teresa Dean. From White City Chips -- George Ade. From The Chicago Record's Stories of the Streets and of the Town ; From Artie ; From Fables in Slang and More Fables -- Finley Petter Dunne. From the Preface to Mr. Dooley in Peace and War ; Up in Archey Road ; What does he care? ; Chicago newspapers ; The church fair ; A book review ; The Supreme Court's decision ; The big fine ; Things spiritual --
• [Pt. 3] The world changes. The superior eye. The "Colyum": Bert Leston Taylor and Keith Preston: Bert Leston Taylor: from "A Line O'Type or Two" ; Keith Preston: from "Hit or Miss" -- Ring Lardner. From You Know Me, Al ; From Gullible's Travels, etc -- The literary wits. The Friday literary review of the Chicago Evening Post. Predigested opinions ; Mrs. Grundy ; The average reader -- The Daily News book page. Alfred Kreymborg: The Stevens fadeaway ; Carl Sandburg: A middle-west man -- The Ulysses affair. Ben Hecht: from "Boob Babble" ; Burton Rascoe: from "The Intellectual Autobiography of Francis Hackett" ; Keith Preston: from "The Periscope" ; Burton Rascoe: from "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La" -- The Tribune book page. Burton Rascoe: from "On a Certain Condescension in Our Natives: ' Burton Rascoe: from "Olla Podrida" -- The Chicago Literary Times. From "Cabaret Folk Songs that Articulate the Amorous Soul of the Americano" ; Rhyme of the literary Don Juan -- Tough town. [James] Langston Hughes. Feet live their own life ; In the dark -- Nelson Algren. How the devil came down Division Street -- Mike Royko. When Slats caught Santa ; Ma's quiet tax revolt ; San-Fran-York on the lake ; Alinsky not in their league ; Dent leads to a wipe-out -- Bill Granger. Talkin' Chicawgo.

ISBN

• 0807110434
• 9780807110430

LCCN

82009876

OCLC

• ocm08477504
• 8477504
• SCSB-58304

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library