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Anderson, Don. "What's So Funny, America?" The Elks Magazine 65.9 (April, 1987): 22-23, 34-36. Ashley, Renée. "An Aesthetic of Anomaly: Edward Taylor's `Preface' To His `Gods Determinations,' My Mother And The Trolley, And Some Thoughts on Involuntary ." Studies in American Humor NS3.4 (1997): 15-46. Axelrod, Mark. "Seven Card Stud and the Scarlet Letter Writers." Studies in American Humor. NS3.2 (1995): 85-97. Bean, Annemarie, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara, eds. Inside the Minstrel Mask/ Readings in Nineteenth-Century Minstrelsy. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press of New England, 1996. Becker, Allienne R. The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. Bergmann, Linda S. "Epic, Parody, and National Identity: George Washington in Nineteenth-Century American Humor." Studies in American Humor. NS3.2 (1995): 1-22. Bennett, Barbara. Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Berger, Arthur Asa. "Peanuts: The Americanization of Augustine." Humor in America. Ed. Enid Veron. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976, 298-304. Berkove, Lawrence I., ed. “`Pahnenit, Price of the Land of Lakes.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 31.2 (1988): 79-118. Berkove, Lawrence I. “Samuel Post Davis.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 202: Nineteenth- Century American Fiction Writers Ed. Kent P. Ljungquist. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1999, 92-99. Berkove, Lawrence I. “Western Mining Camp Literature: Nevada.” Updating the Literary West Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1997, 99-116. Berkowitz, Gerald M. "Thorne Smith." Encyclopedia of American . Ed. Steven Gale. NY: Garland, 1988, 409-11. Bickley, R. Bruce, Jr. "From North Carolina to Nova Scotia: On the Bibliographical Trail of the Fool-Killer." Southern Folklore Quarterly 45 (1981): 163-71. Bier, Jesse. "Modern American Humor." Studies in American Humor 3.1 (April, 1976): 22-22. Bier, Jesse. The Rise and Fall of American Humor. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. Blair, Walter. " in Nineteenth-Century American Humor." On Humor: The Best from American Literature. Ed. Louis J. Budd, and Edwin H. Cady. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992, 1-12. Blair, Walter. Essays on American Humor: Blair Through the Ages. Ed. Hamlin Hill. Madinson, WI: University of Wisconsin Pess, 1993. Blair, Walter. "'A Man's Voice, Speaking': A Continuum of American Humor. Veins of Humor." Veins of Humor. Ed. Harry Levin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1972, 185-204. Blair, Walter, Ed. Native American Humor (1800-1900). NY: American Book Co, 1937; San Francisco, CA: Chandler Publishing Co., 1960. Blair, Walter. "The Popularity of Nineteenth-Century American Humorists." On Humor: The Best from American Literature. Ed. Louis J. Budd, and Edwin H. Cady. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,

AMERICAN HUMOR, PAGE 1 1992, 13-32. Blair, Walter. "The Requisites for American Humor." in What's So Funny: Humor in American Culture. Ed. Nancy A. Walker. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998, 91-106. Blair, Walter, and Hamlin Hill. "No End of ." in What's So Funny: Humor in American Culture. Ed. Nancy A. Walker. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998, 121-132. Blair, Walter, and Raven I. McDavid, Jr., eds. The Mirth of a Nation: America's Great Dialect Humor. Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press, 1983. Boatright, Mody C. Folk Laughter on the American Frontier. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1949. Boskin, Joseph, ed. The Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Boskin, Joseph. Humor and Social Change in 20th Century America. Boston, MA: Boston Public Library, 1979. Boskin, Joseph. "Our Private Laughter: The American Way of Cynicism and Optimism." The World and I August, 1992, 673-680. Boskin, Joseph. Rebelious Laughter: People’s Humor in American Culture Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Boyd, Brian. "Laughter and Literature: A Play Theory of Humor." Philosophy and Literature 28 (2004): 1-22 Brack, O. M., Ed. American Humor. Scottsdale, AZ: Arete, 1977. Bradley, Sculley, "Our Native Humor." North American Review 242.2 (Winter, 1936-37): 351-62; reprinted in The Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America. Ed. Joseph Boskin, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997, 46-54. Brown, Carolyn S. The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. Browning, J. D., ed. in the 18th Century. New York: Garland, 1983. Brucker, Carl. "Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Eye of the Whole Man." Studies in American Humor NS2.3 (1983-84): 161-70. Bruns, John. "Laughter in the Aisles." Studies in American Humor NS3.7 (2000): 5-24. Brustein, Robert. "Self-Parody and Self-Murder." The New Republic 182.10 (March 8, 1980): 26-7. Bryant, John. "Situation Comedy of the Sixties: The Evolution of a Popular Genre." Studies in American Humor NS7 (1989): 118-139. Budd, Louis J., and Edwin H. Cady, eds. On Humor: The Best from American Literature. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. Burke, Ruth. The Games of Poetics: Ludic Criticism and Postmodern Fiction. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1994. Burns, Ann Elizabeth. "Humor du Jour: A Look at Robert Newton Peck's Use of Humor in the Soup Series." Arizona English Bulletin 36.1 (1993): 38-40. Camfield, Greg. Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. Campbell, Jan. "Both a and a Victory: Humor as a Narrative Strategy in Margaret Drabble's Fiction." Contemporary Literature 32 (1991): 75-99. Carlson, A. Cheree. "Limitations on the Comic Frame: Some Witty American Women of the Nineteenth Century." Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (1988): 310-322. Carlson, A. Cheree. "No Laughing Matter: American Woman Humorists Versus `True Womanhood,' 1820- 1880." Journal of American Culture 13 (1990: 23-29. Caron, James E. “Laughter, Politics, and the Yankee Doodle Legacy in America’s Comic Tradition.” Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 10.1 (1988): 3-13. Chapman, Edgar L. "Sex, Satire, and Feminism in the Science Fiction of Suzette Haden Elgin." The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. Ed. Tom Staicar. New York, NY: Frederick Ungar, 1982, 89-102.

AMERICAN HUMOR, PAGE 2 Clark, Charlene Kerne. "Pathos with a Chuckle: The Tragicomic Vision in the Novels of Carson McCullers." Studies in American Humor 1.3 (January, 1975): 161-166. Clark, John R., and Anna Lydia Motto. "Running Down and Dropping Out: Entropy in Modern Literature." Studies in Contemporary Satire 10 (1983): 9-22. Clark, John R., and William E. Morris. "Ah, Similitude! Notes on Southern Humor." Mississippi Folklore Register. Fall, 1983: 67-80. Clark, William Bedford, and W. Craig Turner, eds. Critical Essays on American Humor. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1984. Clarkson, Wensley. Quentin Tarantino: Shooting from the Hip. London, England: Piatkus, 1995. Cohen, Hennig, and William B. Dillingham, eds. Humor of the Old Southwest. 3nd edition. Athens: Univ of Georgia Press, 1994. Cohen, Martin. Humorous Dramatic Interpretation. , IL: National Textbook Co, 1985. Cohen, Sarah Blacher. Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1992. Colbert, Robert E. "Satiric Vision in Herzog." Studies in Contemporary Satire 5 (1978): 22-33. Collins, Robert A., and Howard D. Pearce. The Scope of the Fantastic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. Covici, Pascal, Jr. Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Coyle, William. "From Scatology to Social History: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang." Studies in American Humor. 3.3 (1977): 135-41. Crandell, George W. "Emperors and Little Empires: The Schoolmaster in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Studies in American Humor 5.1 (1986): 51-61. Daemmrich, Ingrid G. The Changing Seasons of Humor in Literature 2nd Edition. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1995. Derrida, Jacques. The Archeology of the Frivolous. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University, 1980. Dodge, Robert K., ed. Early American Almanac Humor. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987. Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1983, 23-38. Dudden, Arthur Power, ed. American Humor. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. Dudden, Arthur Power. "American Humor." American Quarterly 37.1 (1985): 7-12. Dudden, Arthur Power. "The Dimensions of American Humor." East-West Film Journal. 2 (1987): 3-16. Dudden, Arthur Power. "Humor and Comedy." Encyclopedia of American Social History New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. Durant, David. "Aeolism in Knickerbocker's A History of New York." On Humor: The Best from American Literature. Ed. Louis J. Budd, and Edwin H. Cady. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992, 154-167. Eastman, Max. The Enjoyment of Laughter. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1936. Eddings, Dennis. "Horse Sense in Roughing It. Studies in American Humor. New Series 3, Number 5 (1998): 64-75. Ellenbogen, Glenn, ed. The Director of Humor Magazines and Humor Organizations in America (and Canada). 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Wry-Bred Press, 1989. English, James F. "Modernist Joke-Work: Pale Fire and the Mock Transcendence of Mockery." Contemporary Literature 33 (1992): 74-90. Erens, Patricia. "You Could Die from Laughing: and Film." East West Film Journal 2.1 (1987): 50-61. Feehan, Michael. "Chinese Finger-Traps or `A Perturbation in the Reality Field': Paradox as Conversion in Philip K. Dick's Fiction." Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations. Ed. Samuel J. Umland. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, 197-206. Feldcamp, Fred, ed. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1950.

AMERICAN HUMOR, PAGE 3 Ferguson, J. DeLancey. "The Roots of American Humor." American Scholar 4 (1934-35): 41-49. Fletcher, M. D. Contemporary Political Satire: Narrative Strategies in the Post-Modern Context. NY: University Press of America, 1987. Flieger, Jerry Aline. The Purloined : Freud's Comic Theory and the Postmodern Text. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957. Frye, Northrop. Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Indiana University Press, 1976Myth, and Society. Bloomington, IN: Gale, Steven H. “Arthur Kopit.” Critical Survey of , Volume 3. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1985, 1064-1076. Gale, Steven H. “Arthur Kopit.” Encyclopedia of American Literature Ed. Steven R. Serafin. New York, NY: Continuum 1999, 634-637. Gale, Steven H. “David Mamet: The Plays, 1972-1980.” Essays on Contemporary American Drama. Ed. Albert Wertheim and Hedwig Bock. Munich, Germany: Max Hueber, 1981, 207-223. Gale, Steven H., ed. Encyclopedia of American Humorists. New York, NY: Garland, 1988. Gale, Steven H. “Frederick Swartwout Cozzens.” American National Biography, Volume 5 Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, 642-672. Gale, Steven H. “Humor in American Literature.” Encyclopedia of U.S. . Eds. Ray and Pat Browne. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2000. Gale, Steven H. “Humor High and Low: An Introduction.” American Humor: New Studies, New Directions. Ed. David E. E. Sloane. Tuscaloosa, AL: Alabama University Press, 1998, 87-102. Gale, Steven H. “John Guare.” Contemporary Dramatists, 4th Edition. Ed. Daniel Kirkpatrick, London, England: St. James Press, 1988, 218-221. Gale, Steven H. “John Guare.” Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven R. Serafin. New York, NY: Continium, 1999, 462-463. Gale, Steven H. “The New Yorker.” American Comic Journals. Ed. David E. E. Sloane. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987, 179-191. Gale, Steven H. “The New Yorker.” Encyclopedia of the Essay. Ed. Tracy Chevalier. London, England: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998, 597-599. Gale, Steven H. "Seventy-Five Years of the New Yorker : A History." American Periodicals 11 ( ): 95-130. Galligan, E. The Comic Vision in Literature. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984. Gatta, John. Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor. Columbia: Univ of Missouri Press, 1989. Gehring, Wes D. “The Comic Anti-Hero in American Fiction: Its First Full Articulation.” Thalia: A Journal of Studies in Literary Humor Winter, 1980, 11-14. Gehring, Wes D. “The Yankee Figure in American Comedy Fiction.” Thalia: A Journal of Stuldies in Literary Humor Winter, 1979, 43-49. Gates, Robert A. American Literary Humor During the Great Depression. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999; reviewed in HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 13.4 (2000): 481-482. Gilliatt, Penelope. To Wit: The Skin and Bones of Comedy. NY: Charles Scribner's, 1990. Granger, Bruce Ingraham. Political Satire in the American Revolution, 1763-1783. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ Press, 1960. Grant, Thomas. "The `Funny Republican': P. J. O'Rourke and the Graying of Boomer Humor." Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1996): 102-118. Grawe, Paul H. Comedy in Space, Time, and the Imagination. Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall, 1983. Griffith, Nancy Snell, ed. Humor of the Old Southwest: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. NY: Greenwood, 1989.

AMERICAN HUMOR, PAGE 4 Habegger, Alfred. "Nineteenth-Century American Humor: Easygoing Males, Anxious Ladies, and Penelope Lapham." PMLA 91 (1976): 884-99. Hansen, Arlen J. "Entropy and Transformation: Two Types of American Humor." The Humor Prism in Twentieth-Century America. Ed. Joseph Boskin, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997, 55- 70. Harmon, William, and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. 8th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000. Harrington, Oliver W. Why I Left America and Other Essays. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Harris, Charles B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1971. Haslam, Thomas J. "Absentee Government, The Absurd Frontier, and the Laughable Origins of American Identity; or, the Twice-Told Fish Tale of Captain John Smith." Studies in American Humor NS 7 (1989): 58-66. Hauck, Richard B. "The Comic Christ and the Modern Reader." College English 31 (1970): 498-508. Haweis, Hugh Reginald. American Humorists. New York, NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1882. Haweis, Hugh Reginald. "American Humorists in 1882." in What's So Funny: Humor in American Culture. Ed. Nancy A. Walker. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998, 79-82. Hatch, Jane M. The American Book of Days. New York, NY: Wilson, 1978. Henkle, Roger B. Comedy and Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. Herzberg, M. J., and L. Mones. Humor of America New York, NY: Appleton-Century- Crofts, 1945. Heuscher, Julius E. " and Fairy Tales: Quests for Wider Worlds." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 413-16. Hill, Hamlin, ed. Essays on American Humor: Blair through the Ages. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Hill, Hamlin. "The Future of American Humor: Through a Glass Eye, Darkly." Critical Essays on American Humor. Eds. William Bedford Clark and W. Craig Turner. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1984, 219-25. Hill, Hamlin, and Walter Blair. America's Humor. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1978. Holliday, Carl. The Wit and Humor of Colonial Days. Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1975. Hollis, C. Carroll. "Rural Humor of the Late Nineteenth Century." The Comic Imagination in American Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1983, 165-77. Howard, Leon. The Connecticut Wits. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1943. Idol, John L., Jr. "Angels and Demons: The Satire of Look Homeward, Angel." Studies in Contemporary Satire 1.2 (1975): 39-46. Inge, M. Thomas. "American Literary Humor: A Bibliographic Guide." Choice 26.10 (1989): 1641-1649. Inge, M. Thomas, ed. The Frontier Humorists: Critical Views. NY: Archon, 1975. Inge, M. Thomas. Handbook of American Popular Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988. Inge, M. Thomas. "'One Priceless Universal Trait': American Humor." American Studies International 25.1 (1987): 28-45. Inge, M. Thomas. Perspectives on American Culture: Essays on Humor, Literature, and the Popular Arts. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1995. Inge, M. Thomas, and Edward J. Piacentino J., eds. The Humor of the Old South. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2001. Jacobs, Robert D. "The Humor of Tobacco Road." The Comic Imagination in American Literature. Ed. Louis Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1973, 285-94. Jennison, Keith W. The Humorous Mr. Lincoln. NY: Bonanza Books, 1965. Jitomir, Howard Steven. "Forgotten Excellence: A Study of Thorne Smith's Humor." Dissertation Abstracts International 44.6 (December, 1986), 1781A.

AMERICAN HUMOR, PAGE 5 Johnson, Julie Greer. "Humor in Spain's American Colonies: The Case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." Studies in American Humor NS3.7 (2000): 35-48. Jones, Richard Glyn, ed. The Fish is Loaded! Surreal and Bizarre Humour. New York: Citadel, 1991. Justus, James H. Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Kaufman, Will. ": Bob, They're Just Jokes." The as Confidence Man: Studies in Fatigue. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997, 113-146. Kaufman, Will. The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Kehl, D. G. "Varieties of Risible Experience: Grades of Laughter in Modern American Literature." HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 13.4 (2000): 279-395. Kenney, William Howland, ed. Laughter in the Wilderness: Early American Humor to 1783. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ Press, 1976. Keough, William. Punchlines: The Violence of American Humor. NY: Paragon House, 1966. Kersten, Holger. “The Creative Potential of Dialect Writing in Later 19th Century America.” Nineteenth Century Literature Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. Kesterson, David B. "The Literary and the Language of Humor." Studies in American Humor 1.1 (1982): 44-51. Kesterson, David B. "The Literary Comedians: A Review of Modern Scholarship." American Studies 30 (1985): 167-75. Kesterson, David B. ed. The New Yorker from 1925-1950 Special Issue of Studies in American Humor NS3.1 (1984). Kesterson, David B. "Those Literary Comedians." Critical Essays on American Humor. Eds. William Bedford Clark and W. Craig Turner. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1984, 167-84. Kibler, James. "`The Innocent Cause, Or How Snoring Broke Off a Match': A Sketch from the Dutch Fork School of Humor." Studies in American Humor NS2.3 (1983-84): 185-94. Kilcup, Karen L. "Humor and Ethnicity in the Americas/On the Borderlands." Studies in American Humor NS3.7 (2000): 1-4. Kilcup, Karen L. “Recovering New Humor: Negotiations of Class.” Studies in American Humor NS3.6 (1999): 1-4. Killoran, Helen. "`Xingu': Edith Wharton Instructs Literary Critics." Studies in American Humor NS4.3 (1996): 1-13. Krauth, Leland. "Laughter in The Pioneers." Studies in American Humor NS1.2 (1982): 79-89. Kronenberger, Louis. "The American Sense of Humor." Humor in America. Ed. Enid Veron. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976, 266-71. Lahr, John. Astonish Me: Adventures in Contemporary Theater. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1973. Laird, Charlton G. "Tragedy and Irony in Knickerbocker's History." On Humor: The Best from American Literature. Ed. Louis J. Budd, and Edwin H. Cady. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992, 43-58. Landon, Melville D. Wit and Humor of the Age. Chicago: Star Publishing Co, 1883. Lang, John. "George Horatio Derby." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 11: American Humorists, 1800- 1950. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1982, 114-23. Lang, John. "George Derby and the Language of Reasoned Absurdity." Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 3 (1978): 61-70. Larkin Galiñanes, Christina. "Funny Fiction; Or, Jokes and Their Relation to the Humorous Novel." Poetics Today 26.1 (2005): 79-111. Leacock, Stephen, ed. The Greatest Pages of American Humor. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1936. Leacock, Stephen. Humour and Humanity. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1938. Lear, Norman. The Wit and Wisdom of Archie Bunker. NY: Popular Library, 1971.

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