The Comic Tradition in America An Anthology of American Humor [Paperback]

The selections in this anthology range from Maine to Georgia, and from New England to Mark Twains Southwest; from boisterous frontier jokes to sharp political and social satire. It was during this century that regional folk humor developed into a conscious literary art of high craftsmanship, and an indispensable part of a native American literature.The selections in this anthology are drawn (with the exception of Benjamin Franklin) from the nineteenth century, the great age of American humor.