American satire : an anthology of writings from Colonial times to the present / edited by Nicholas Bakalar ; introduction by Stephen Koch.
| Other author | Bakalar, Nick. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian, ©1997. |
| Description | xix, 456 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Electronic Location | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Subjects |
| Contents | New English Canaan / Thomas Morton -- The sot-weed factor / Ebenezer Cook -- A pretty story / Francis Hopkinson -- On sending felons to America ; The sale of the Hessians ; Model of a letter of recommendation ; Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one ; Humourous reasons for restoring Canada / Benjamin Franklin -- The Tuesday Club / Alexander Hamilton -- The British prison ship / Philip Freneau -- Modern chivalry / Hugh Brackenridge -- Tales of a traveler / Washington Irving -- The celestial railroad / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Have we any men among us? ; Tom Pax's conjugal soliloquy ; To gentlemen ; Has a mother a right to her children? ; Fresh leaves ; A chapter for parents / Fanny Fern -- The Biglow Papers / James Russell Lowell -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mr. Dooley / Finley Peter Dunne -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses ; A helpless situation ; Advice to youth ; The art of inhumation (from Life on the Mississippi) ; American in Europe (from A tramp abroad) ; The war prayer / Mark Twain -- The Sultan of Sulu / George Ade -- A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices ; War Is kind / Stephen Crane -- How Little Red Riding Hood came to be eaten ; How rudeness and kindness were justly rewarded / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- Xingu ; Expiation / Edith Wharton -- Rondo on an ancient theme / H. L. Mencken -- A letter from the Queen / Sinclair Lewis -- A day at the Republican Convention ; At the Democratic Convention / Will Rogers -- Words, words, words ; Far from well ; Comment ; One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker -- Tom, the young kidnapper / James Thurber -- Ballad of the landlord ; Ku Klux ; American heartbreak / Langston Hughes -- In a manner that must shame God himself / Kurt Vonnegut -- Universal military motion / Russell Baker -- Pictures from Vietnam ; Telling the truth / Art Buchwald -- Ronnie and Nancy: a life in pictures / Gore Vidal -- Old marrieds / Calvin Trillin -- The innocents abroad, updated / P. J. O'Rourke -- H. Ross went seven bubbles off plumb (and other tales) ; New heights of piffle / Molly Ivins. |
| Abstract | From the earliest colonial times to the present day, American writers have been taking deadly aim at sacred cows. This unique anthology brings together the most telling of these ferociously funny, on-target attacks - from Thomas Morton's poison pen commentary on Puritan New England to the best shots of such hilarious contemporary heavy hitters as Russell Baker, Kurt Vonnegut, and Molly Ivins. Combining superb writing with scathing wit, American Satire is literature with a laugh and history with a hiss. It stands as a definitive demonstration of what the land of the free-speaking and home of the unafraid is all about. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: American satire. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian, ©1997 |
| Genre/form | humor. |
| Genre/form | Humor. |
| Genre/form | Humor. |
| Genre/form | Humour. |
| LCCN | 96044144 |
| ISBN | 0452011744 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780452011748 (pbk.) |