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331 Southern Frontier Humor A Selected Bibliography The following bibliography lists only the most essential secondary materials about the genre of southern frontier humor. Organized into two sections, this bibliography includes general studies: books, selected unpublished dissertations and Web sites and general studies: articles. For a more comprehensive bibliography of and ongoing scholarship on frontier humor and on individual authors, both those featured in this anthology as well other antebellum southern humorists, readers should consult The Humor of the Old South, edited by M. Thomas Inge and Edward Piacentino, University Press of Kentucky, 2001; the SSSL Bibliography: A Checklist of Scholarship On Southern Literature, http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sss, “The Year’s Work in Humor Studies” in Studies in American Humor; American Literary Scholarship: An Annual; and the online MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on Modern Languages and Literatures. General Studies: Books, and Sections or Chapters from Books, Web Sites Arac, Jonathan. “Southwestern Humor.” In The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 2, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, 630–41, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Austin, James C. American Humor in France: Two Centuries of French Criticism of the Comic Spirit in American Literature. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1978. Beidler, Philip D., ed. The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1986. Bier, Jesse. The Rise and Fall of American Humor. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. 332 Selected Bibliography Blair, Walter. “A German Connection: Raspe’s Baron Munchausen” Critical Essays on American Humor, edited by William B. Clark and W. Craig Turner, 123–39. Boston: G. K Hall, 1984. ———. Native American Humor. New York: American Book Co., 1937. ———, and Hamlin Hill. America’s Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury, 23–30 and passim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Bridgmann, Richard. The Colloquial Style in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Brown, Carolyn S. The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. Carr, Duane. A Question of Class: The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Fiction. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1996. Cohen, Hennig and William B. Dillingham. Introduction. Humor of the Old Southwest, edited by Cohen and Dillingham.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. Cohen, Sandy.“South and Southwest.” American Humorists, 1800–1950, edited by Stanley Trachtenberg. Vol. 11 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1982. Covici, Pascal, Jr. Mark Twain’s Humor: The Image of a World, 3–91. Dallas: SMU Press, 1962. Cox,James.M.“Humor of the Old Southwest.”The Comic Imagination in American Literature, edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., 101–12. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1973. Cox, Rosemary D.“The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque.” A Companion to American Regional Literature, edited by Charles L. Crow, 247–65. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003. Current-Garcia, Eugene. The American Short Story Before 1850: A Critical History , 99–118. Boston: Twayne, 1985. Flanagan, John T. “Western Sportsmen Travelers in the New York Spirit of the Times.” Travelers on the Western Frontier, edited by John Francis McDermott , 168–86. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Flautz, John T. “The Dialect Sermon in American Literature.” Popular Literature in America: A Symposium in Honor of Lyon N. Richardson, edited by James C. Austin and Donald A. Koch, 129–45. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972. Grammer, John M.“Southwestern Humor.” A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South, edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson , 370–87. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Gretlund, Jan Nordby. “1835: The Annus Mirabilis of Southern Fiction.” Rewriting the South: History and Fiction, edited by Lothar Honnighausen and Valeria Gennaro Lerda, 121–30. Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1993. [44.213.80.174] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 06:00 GMT) Selected Bibliography 333 Griffith, Nancy Snell. Humor of the Old Southwest: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. New York: Greenwood, 1989. Hauck, Richard Boyd. A Cheerful Nihilism: Confidence and “the Absurd” in American Humorous Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971. Hill, Hamlin. Essays on American Humor: Blair Through the Ages. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Hubbell, Jay B. The South in American Literature, 1607–1900, 658–86. Durham: Duke University Press, 1954. Inge, M. Thomas, ed. The Frontier Humorists: Critical Views. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. ———, and Edward J. Piacentino, eds. The Humor of the Old South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Joost, Nicholas. “Reveille in the West: Western Travelers in the...