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Article: Joseph Gault, an Unknown Georgia Humorist.
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
- Author:
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In the early Indian lands from Georgia to Mississippi were opened to white settlement. The primitive backwoods conditions of these regions, in close juxtaposition to urban centers of nearly European sophistication, stimulated a literary renaissance of a sort, and the 1830s and 1840s became the heyday of Southern humor. The New York Spirit of the Times, the weekly newspaper which gave this type of writing wide circulation, gained a national readership, and the major humor anthologies, edited by William Trotter Porter and T. A. Burke, appeared during these years. With the exception of George Washington Harris's Sut Lovingood. Yarns, the period 1835-1855 saw the publication ...
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