The humor of the Old South

Resource Information

The work The humor of the Old South represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The humor of the Old South

Statement of responsibility

edited by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino

Contributor

• Inge, M. Thomas
• Piacentino, Edward J., 1945-

Subject

• 1800-1899
• American wit and humor
• American wit and humor -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American wit and humor -- Southern States -- History and criticism
• American wit and humor -- Southwest, Old -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- General
• HUMOR -- General
• Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts
• Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States
• Humorists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southwest, Old
• Intellectual life
• Literature
• Southern States
• Southern States -- In literature
• Southern States -- Intellectual life
• Southwest, Old -- In literature
• Southwest, Old -- Intellectual life
• United States -- Southwest, Old

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty-five years' most significant writing on the humor of the Old Southwest, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

OCLCE

Index

index present

Language note

English

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography