American Humor

Name: American Humor
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ISBN: 9780195050547

ISBN-10: 0195050541

ISBN-13: 9780195050547

Edition: 1989

Authors: Arthur Power Dudden

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The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and focus particularly on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Looking at American comic figures as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain and Richard Nixon, at various vehicles for American humor such as comic strips, radio and television, movies,…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.27" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Arthur Power Dudden is professor of history at Bryn Mawr College and Founding President of the Fulbright Association of Alumni. He is author of Understanding the American Republic and Joseph FeJs and the Single Tax Movement, and editor of Wood-row Wilson and the World of Today and the International Directory of Specialists in American Studies.



Introduction: American Humor



English Satire and Connecticut Wit



The Importance of Mark Twain



The Record of Political Humor



What's So Funny About the Comics?



Standup Comedy as Social and Cultural Mediation



Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival



Humor and Gender Roles: The Funny Feminism of the Post-World War Two Suburbs



Richard Nixon as a Comic Figure