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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362276
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Author: Angus Bethune Reach
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Robert Kemp Philp
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Sylvanus Cobb
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Category : Dime novels
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Mildred Lewis Rutherford
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Author: George Walker
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Category : Cribbage
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: David Tatham
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629740
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910), arguably the best-known American artist of the nineteenth century, created three distinctly different bodies of work in the course of his long career: paintings, book illustrations, and illustrations for the pictorial press, the magazine-like illustrated journals of his day. A number of books and exhibition catalogues have dealt with his career as a painter, and historian David Tatham treated all of Homer's work as an illustrator of literature in his Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book. Now, ten years later, Tatham has completed a full, scholarly account of Homer's work for pictorial magazines such as Harper's Weekly, Appleton's Monthly, and Every Saturday. Homer's work for pictorial magazines is substantial, to say the least. It amounts to some 250 wood-engraved images published between 1857 and 1875. These wood engravings are collected assiduously and are exhibited frequently in museums. They differ from Homer's book illustrations in that they are independent from the texts; Homer chose and treated the great majority of his magazine subjects much as he did his paintings. They are, in essence, original works of graphic art. The illustrations reproduced here cover a remarkable range. They constitute the first substantial body of American art about the life of the city streets, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, abolition, and the New Woman. They include compelling treatments of the Civil War, rural childhood, and wilderness. They also comprise an essential contribution to the study of one of the masters of American art.
