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Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino, eds., The Humor of the Old South.(Book Review)
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American Studies International
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June 1, 2004
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 George Washington University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino, eds., The Humor of the Old South (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2001), 336 pp., $29.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
This collection of seventeen essays spans 25 years of recent scholarship. The Introduction by J.H. Justus sets forth the book's basic concept by challenging the "slantindicular" practice to measure up antebellum humor to Mark Twain's perpendicular (1). K.S. Lynn's "subversive theory" (Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor, 1959) is reexamined in favor of rendering "Longstreet and his fellows" "more as Moderns than as partisan Whigs" (7). Echoing C. Rourke's American Humor (1931) Justus maintains the trustworthy notion that ...
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