Exceptional American Humor

[David Casseres]

Thank you for that, Terrance.  I'm particularly pleased to learn about
Constance Rourke.

On 8/19/06, terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  see Beneath the American Renaissance; the subversive imagination in the age
> of Emerson and Melville, David, S. Reynolds
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> Melville & Repose, John Bryant
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> The American Barcissus; individualism and women in 19th c. american fiction,
> JoyceW. Warren
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> Constance Rourke (1885-1941) was a historian, anthropologist, and critic who
> revolutionized the study of American culture.
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> http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/10189
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> http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/rourke/contents.html
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> Ziff
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> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDD123BF930A1575BC0A967948260
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> http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=Hardcover:Sale:0300082363:9.98
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> White Over Black
> American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
> by Winthrop D. Jordan
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> http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/t-23.html
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> In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American
> Social Thought. By Carl Degler. Oxford University Press.
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> http://www.origins.org/articles/johnson_domesticatingdarwin.html
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> Bibliography of Works by and about Richard Chase
> Compiled by Tina L. Hanlon, Ph.D.
> Ferrum College
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> http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/chasebib.htm
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