Studies in American Humor

accept advice American Humor appears argues assertion associated audience become calls century character claim columns comic competitive concludes consider contemporary context conventions Country critics critique cultural Days describes discussion early essay example explains expression fact female feminine fiction forms frontier humor Gail Hamilton gender Hamilton human humorists husband ideas identifies identity individual interested ironic irony issue jokes journal Ladies language laugh least less letter literary literature Living look Magazine male manhood Mark Twain Mary Abigail Dodge masculine means narrative narrator nature never nineteenth-century notes novel observes offers opinions perhaps periodical persona play political position present provides published questions readers rejects relations responses reviewer rhetoric role satire sense sentimental sketch social speak stereotypes story Studies style suggests Suggs texts thought tradition University views voice woman women writing