In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Editor's Drawers

Lawrence Howe
pp. 1-2
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On Second Thought

Judith Yaross Lee, Todd Thompson, Silas Kaine Ezell, Michael P. Branch
pp. 3-10
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Cutting to the Punch: Graphic Stunt Comedy and the Emergence of Crisis Slapstick

Joshua Louis Moss
pp. 11-38
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"Don't go all earnest on us": Metamodern Satire in George Saunders's "Brad Carrigan, American"

Sam Chesters
pp. 39-60
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Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting

Todd Thompson
pp. 61-85
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Comedy Gold: Humor on the Alaska-Yukon Border, 1886-1896

Christopher Petrakos
pp. 86-104
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The Pleasure of the Parlor: Mocking the "Home Guard" in Civil War Visual Culture

Vanessa Meikle Schulman
pp. 105-127
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The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2019

Joanne Gilbert
pp. 128-213
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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young (review)

Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, Grace Heneks
pp. 214-217
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Humor, Psyche, and Society: A Socio-Semiotic Analysis by Arthur Asa Berger (review)

James E. Caron
pp. 217-221
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Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman by Susan G. Davis (review)

Joseph W. Slade
pp. 221-226
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Mark Twain in Context ed. by John Bird (review)

Heidi M. Hanrahan
pp. 227-230
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The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue by Will Kaufman (review)

Sam Chesters
pp. 230-232
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Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts by David McGowan (review)

Rick Cousins
pp. 232-236
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When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West by William V. Costanzo (review)

Dolores Resano
pp. 236-240
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Joking about Jihad: Comedy and Terror in the Arab World by Gilbert Ramsay and Moutaz Alkheder (review)

Emma Sullivan
pp. 240-243
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The Linguistics of Humor: An Introduction by Salvatore Attardo (review)

Kenneth L. Brewer
pp. 243-246
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Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum by Bernard Schweizer (review)

Jay Friesen
pp. 246-249
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Sitcommentary: Television Comedies That Changed America by Mark A. Robinson (review)

Owen Cantrell
pp. 249-251
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The Dark Side of Comedy ed. by Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse (review)

Michael Dalebout
pp. 251-254
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