Studies in American Humor

 

New Series 3, No. 6 (1999)

 

Special Issue: Recovering New Humor

 

Contents

 

 

The Editor’s Drawers                                                                                       iii

 

Recovering New Humor: Negotiations of Class                                                  

Karen L. Kilcup                                                                                                                          1

 

Witty Words, Moral Lessons: Ambrose Bierce’s Write It Right                            

Peter Kratzke                                                                                                                               5

 

Fanny Fern, Performative Incivilities and Rap

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

 

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 1998

Judith Yaross Lee                                                                                                                    71

 

Reviews

 

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

 

Contributors                                                                                                   91

 

Announcements                                                                                              92