Studies in American Humor
New Series 3, No. 6 (1999)
Recovering
New Humor: Negotiations of Class
Karen L. Kilcup 1
Witty Words, Moral Lessons: Ambrose Bierce’s Write It Right
Peter Kratzke 5
Joyce W.
Warren 17
The
“Neurotic Giggle”: Humor in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline
O’Connor 37
Making
Hay of the Yellow Wallpaper:
“The Boveopathic Sanatorium” Proposes A New Remedy for Neurasthenia
Ellen Gruber
Garvey 49
The New England Humor of George Savary Wasson (1855-1932)
Cameron
Nickels 61
Judith
Yaross Lee 71
The Humor Prism in 20th-Century America, edited by Joseph Boskin
Bruce Michelson 81
What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture, edited by Nancy A. Walker
Joseph B. McCullough 82
New Directions in American Humor Studies, edited by David E. E. Sloane
John Bird 83
Mark Twain at the Buffalo
Express: Articles and Sketches by America’s Favorite Humorist,
edited by Joseph B. McCullough and Janice McIntire-Strasburg
L. Terry Oggel 85
Redeeming Laughter: The Comic
Dimension of the Human Experience,
by Peter Berger
Michael J. Kiskis 87
Personality Comedians as Genre: Selected Players, by Wes D. Gehring
Siva Vaidhyanathan 89
Announcements 92