CFP: "Humor in American Literature and Culture" Panel at the American Literature Association Conference 2023
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ACLA 2023 panel on "Humor and Amusement in Translation: Not Losing it"
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A Special Issue for _Studies in American Humor_: “Participation and Humor in North America”
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Vari on Hakkarainen, 'Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna' and Hödl, 'Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna'
Heidi Hakkarainen.
Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna.
Austrian and Habsburg Studies Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 279 pp.
$135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78920-273-1. Klaus Hödl.
Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.
Caplan on Dauber, 'Jewish Comedy: A Serious History'
Jeremy Dauber. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2017. 384 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-24787-9.
Reviewed by Jennifer Caplan (Towson University) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Giles on Merziger, 'Nationalsozialistische Satire und "Deutscher Humor": Politische Bedeutung und Öffentlichkeit populärer Unterhaltung 1931-1945'
Patrick Merziger. Nationalsozialistische Satire und "Deutscher Humor": Politische Bedeutung und Öffentlichkeit populärer Unterhaltung 1931-1945. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 407 pp. $87.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-515-09355-2.
Reviewed by Geoffrey J. Giles (University of Florida) Published on H-German (December, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Frazier on Boskin, 'Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey'
Joseph Boskin. Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 224 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-0964-3.
Reviewed by Javan D. Frazier (Middle Georgia College) Published on H-War (May, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
Taylor on Arp and Parker, 'Bill Arp's Peace Papers: Columns on War and Reconstruction, 1861-1873' and Samito, 'Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader'
Bill Arp, David B. Parker. Bill Arp's Peace Papers: Columns on War and Reconstruction, 1861-1873. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. 304 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57003-835-8.Christian G. Samito. Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader.
Perkins on Hillenbrand, 'Underground Humour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945'
F. K. M. Hillenbrand. Underground Humour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xviii + 297 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-09785-7.
Reviewed by John Perkins (University of New South Wales) Published on H-German (May, 1997)
