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Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain - Hardcover

Justus, James H.

 
9780826215444: Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain

Synopsis

Humorists from the Old Southwest: Crockett, Longstreet, Thompson, Baldwin, Thorpe, Hooper, Robb, Harris, and Lewis; formed a kind of shadow canon in American literature that led to Mark Twain's early work, from 1834 to 1867. James H. Justus's examines this writing in the context of other discourses contemporaneous with it.

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About the Author

James H. Justus is Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren.

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