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Volume 4, Issue 2
October 2018
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ISSN 0095-280X
EISSN 2333-9934
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The Editor's Drawers

Announcing “On Second Thought”: A New Feature
Lawrence Howe
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Special Issue: Mark Twain, Satire, and The “Assault of Laughter”

Comic Assaults and Somersaults: An Introduction
Judith Yaross Lee
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ARTICLES

WTF Is Laughter to Mark Twain?
Jennifer A. Hughes
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When the Candle Goes Out: The Complexity of Simple Jokes and the Limits of Satire
Jeffrey Melton
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“Scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures”: Some Thoughts on “Mere” Humor, Entertainment, and Pleasure
Tracy Wuster
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Mark Twain's “Assault of Laughter” and the Limits of Political Humor
Holger Kersten
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Is Satire Compatible with Free Speech?
Gregg Camfield
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The Pernicious Use of “Humorist” to Describe Mark Twain (and Other Comic Writers)
James E. Caron
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Comic Outbreaks and Scholastic Discontents
Bruce Michelson
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REVIEW ESSAY

The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2016
Gretchen Martin
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Book Reviews

Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
Jerry C. Jaffe
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Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
James E. Caron
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Lalo Alcaraz: Political Cartooning in the Latino Community
Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson
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A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There
Jim Lyttle
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Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert
Matthew R. Meier
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No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
Janet Neary
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Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change
Jared Champion
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Nothing On a Stage Is Permanent: The Harry Langdon Scrapbook and Harry Langdon: King of Silent Comedy
Ben Urish
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The Tar Baby: A Global History
Christine Dualé
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Slow Ball Cartoonist: The Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native and Pulitzer Prize Winner John T. McCutcheon of the “Chicago Tribune
Teresa Prados-Torreira
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She Could Be Chaplin! The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell
Kristine Brunovska Karnick
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Sweet and Lowdown: Woody Allen's Cinema of Regret
Nayra B. Delgado López
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Comedy Begins with Our Simplest Gestures: Levinas, Ethics, and Humor
Zsófia Anna Tóth
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A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Life and Spiritual Work of Charles M. Schulz
Larry Bush
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