American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals

by David E. Sloane

Overview

This first annotated guide devoted entirely to American humor magazines and periodicals provides a comprehensive survey of a genre that has both enriched and reflected American mores, popular culture, and literature for over two hundred years. It offers analytical essays, bibliographies, and historical information on nearly three hundred of the most important individual publications, as well as extensive listings of rare periodicals about which very little is presently known.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313239564
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/18/1987
Series:	Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers
Pages:	683
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.44(d)

About the Author

DAVID E.E. SLOANE is Professor of English, at the University of New Haven.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stanley Trachtenberg
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Library Location Codes
Magazine Profiles
Brief Listings
Additional Magazines
A. Copyright Listings of Humor Magazines by Bonnie F. Sloane
B. Unverified Data: Magazines Identified and Described, but Not Examined
Genre Essays
College Humor Magazines by George A. Test
Scholarly Humor Magazines by George A. Test and Don Nilson
Humor in American Almanacs by Robert Secor
Chronological List of Humor Magazines