One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the
bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative
frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861
in an area that extended from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia
westward to Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. Hennig Cohen
and William B. Dillingham have tapped the wealth of this region to
produce a collection that over the last three decades has become
the standard anthology of Old Southwestern humor.
This new, extensively revised edition includes an expanded
introduction, a dozen replacement sections, an updated
bibliography, and works by three new writers--Phillip B. January,
Matthew C. Field, and John Gorman Barr. Most generously represented
are George Washington Harris, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson
Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Selections from twenty-five
authors are featured along with brief biographical essays that
combine historical and political analysis with perceptive literary
criticism. These selections document important facets of antebellum
American culture and provide the background of the literary
achievement of Mark Twain and William Faulkner.
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