1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

336 Pages

by Routledge

336 Pages

by Routledge

336 Pages

by Routledge

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The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1. James K. Paulding

2. Joseph C. Neal

3. George P. Morris

4. Thomas C. Haliburton

5. Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Mrs. Seba Smith)

6. P.T. Barnum

7. Mortimer N. Thomson (Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.)

8. E. Jane Gay (Truman Trumbull, A.M.)

9. Charles Leland

10. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)