Beschrijving

In this study, Wade Hall attempts to represent all the types of humour written in the South between the beginning of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I, specifically 1861 and 1914, including war memoirs, novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and songs.

As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its aftermath were days of the South’s greatest need. Historians have suggested many reasons for the South’s fearless stand against \