Southern Frontier Humor : An Anthology
by Inge, M. Thomas; Piacentino, EdFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-12
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Summary
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists' work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of humor from that region published in fifteen years-and the first fresh selection of sketches and tales to appear in over forty years.
Author Biography
M. Thomas Inge is Blackwell Professor of the Humanities, Randolph–Macon College, whose most recent books are The Incredible Mr. Poe: Comic Book Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 1943–2007 and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 9, Literature. Ed Piacentino is Professor of English, High Point University, editor of The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor and C. M. Haile’s "Pardon Jones" Letters: Old Southwest Humor from Antebellum Louisiana.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Note on the Texts | p. xiii |
| Introduction: The Humor of the Old South; or, Transgression He Wrote | p. 1 |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet | p. 25 |
| Georgia Theatrics | p. 26 |
| The Horse-Swap | p. 28 |
| The Fight | p. 34 |
| Solomon Franklin Smith | p. 43 |
| A Tennessee Door-Keeper | p. 44 |
| The Consolate Widow | p. 46 |
| Speculation in Whiskers | p. 47 |
| An Unfinished Obituary | p. 50 |
| Charles F. M. Noland | p. 52 |
| Pete Whetstone's Bear Hunt | p. 53 |
| Pete Whetstone's Last Frolic | p. 54 |
| Pete Whetstone and the Mail Boy | p. 56 |
| William Tappan Thompson | p. 57 |
| The Major in an Embarrassing Situation | p. 58 |
| The Christmas Present in a Bag | p. 62 |
| The Runaway Match; or How the Schoolmaster Master Married a Fortune | p. 65 |
| George Washington Harris | p. 70 |
| Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse | p. 71 |
| Parson John Bullen's Lizards | p. 75 |
| Sut Lovingood Reports What Bob Dawson Said, After Marrying a Substitute | p. 81 |
| Well! Dad's Dead | p. 85 |
| JohnSon Jones Hooper | p. 89 |
| Simon Plays the "Snatch" Game | p. 91 |
| Captain Suggs and Lieutenant Snipes "Court-Martial" Mrs. Haycock | p. 97 |
| The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting | p. 103 |
| Joseph Glover Baldwin | p. 112 |
| Simon Suggs, Jr. Esq., A Legal Biography | p. 113 |
| Thomas Bangs Thorpe | p. 128 |
| The Big Bear of Arkansas | p. 129 |
| Letters from the Far West 2: Above the Yellow-Stone | p. 139 |
| Letters from the Far West 7: Above the Head of Platte | p. 141 |
| Letters from the Far West 10: Cross Timbers | p. 143 |
| Letters from the Far West 12: Beyond the Cross Timbers | p. 146 |
| Henry Clay Lewis | p. 149 |
| A Tight Race Considerin' | p. 150 |
| The Indefatigable Bear Hunter | p. 157 |
| A Struggle for Life | p. 163 |
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens | p. 171 |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | p. 172 |
| The Story of the Old Ram | p. 176 |
| Frescoes from the Past | p. 179 |
| David Crockett | p. 191 |
| Bear Hunting in Tennessee | p. 192 |
| A Love Adventure and Uproarious Fight with a Stage Driver | p. 200 |
| "Riproarious Shemales" Legendary Women of the Crokett Almanacs | p. 202 |
| Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns | p. 203 |
| Katy Goodgrit | p. 204 |
| One of Crockett's Infant Children, Grinning Lightning at a Bear | p. 205 |
| The Flower of Gum Swamp | p. 206 |
| Joseph Gault | p. 207 |
| A Constable Selling 'Coon Skins | p. 208 |
| A Justice Commanding the Peace | p. 209 |
| The Drunkard's Resurrection in His Morning Shroud | p. 210 |
| James Edward Hentry | p. 212 |
| My Man Dick | p. 213 |
| Hamilton C. Jones | p. 224 |
| Cousin Sally Dilliard | p. 225 |
| McAlpin's Trip to Charleston | p. 227 |
| William Gilmore Simms | p. 230 |
| Ephraim Bartlett, the Edisto Raftsman | p. 231 |
| Joseph M. Field | p. 241 |
| A Lyncher's Own Story | p. 242 |
| Kicking a Yankee | p. 247 |
| Hardin E. Taliaferro | p. 250 |
| Uncle Davy Lane | p. 251 |
| Ride in a Peach Tree (Uncle Davy Lane) | p. 252 |
| The Pigeon Roost (Uncle Davy Lane) | p. 254 |
| Rev. Charles Gentry | p. 255 |
| The Origin of Whites (Rev. Charles Gentry) | p. 256 |
| Jonah and the Whale (Rev. Charles Gentry) | p. 256 |
| John S. Robb | p. 258 |
| Nettle Bottom Ball; or, Betsy Jones' Tumble in the Mush Pan | p. 259 |
| Fun with a "Bar." A Night Adventure on the Missouri | p. 262 |
| Christopher Mason Haile | p. 268 |
| Dear Chase | p. 269 |
| Pardon Jones on the Rio Grande | p. 271 |
| Adam Geiselhard Summer | p. 275 |
| Natural Angling, or Riding a Sturgeon | p. 276 |
| Orlando Benedict Mayer | p. 281 |
| The Innocent Cause, or How Snoring Broke Off a Match: A Tale of Hog Killing Time | p. 282 |
| William C. Hall | p. 289 |
| Mike Hooter's Bar Story | p. 290 |
| How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit: A Yazoo Sketch-No. IV | p. 293 |
| Francis James Robinson | p. 299 |
| Lije Benadix | p. 300 |
| Old Jack C- | p. 306 |
| Marcus Lafayette Byrn | p. 319 |
| Spontaneous Ebullition of a Drunkard | p. 321 |
| The Resurrection, or How to Take Up a Negro | p. 323 |
| Southern Frontier Humor: A Selected Bibliography | p. 331 |
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