American humor Summary

In the following excerpt from a review of several volumes of American humor writing, a commentator from The London and Westminster Review makes the claim that the United States has begun to create a l... Read more

In the following essay, Walker posits female humor writing as a challenge to the popular nineteenth-century notion of women as the frail and humorless keepers and producers of the "sentimental.... Read more

In this excerpt from the essay originally published in America as Americans See It, Seldes describes American humor writing before the Civil War as distinctly democratic, reflecting an emphasis on the... Read more