Studies In American Humor

 

New Series 3, No. 9 (2002)

 

Special Issue: American Women’s Humor

In Honor of Nancy A. Walker (1942-2000)

 

 

 

Contents

 

Editorial

 

Looking Forward, Looking Back: American Women’s Humor
in the Twenty-First Century

Karen L. Kilcup        1

 

Essays

 

Nancy A. Walker:  Courage, Humor, and Subversion

Regina Barreca       5

 

Laughing All the Way to the Bank: Female Sentimentalists

in the Marketplace, 1825-1850

Paula Bernat Bennett    11

 

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A New England Nun” and
the Dilemma of the Woman Artist

Susan K. Harris 27

 

Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs as Gossip Manual

Gregg Camfield   39

 

Good Food, Great Friends, Cold Beer:
The Domestic Humor of Mary Lasswell

Linda A. Morris      55

 

“Whenever I open a book and see ‘Hoot, mon,’ I always
close it immediately: Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Humor

Cheryl B. Torsney   69

 

The Recovery Room

 

The Woolson Caricatures

Constance Fenimore Woolson; text by Kathleen J. Reich        83

 

Asheville Sketches

Constance Fenimore Woolson; text by Kathleen J. Reich        84

 

The Year’s Work

 

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2001

Judith Yaross Lee 93

 

Reviews

 

The Humor of the Old South,

ed. by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino.  Reviewed by John Bird 109

 

Davy Crockett’s Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters:
Women’s Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835-1856,

ed. by Michael A. Lofaro.  Reviewed by Kelly Richardson          112

 

Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship, edited by Laura

Skandera Trombley and Michael J. Kiskis.  Reviewed by Joseph Csicsila  115

 

The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study,

by Peter Messent.  Reviewed by Tom Quirk                118

 

 

Contributors 121