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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
n the United States. Out of the Hurly-Burly (1874), his first and best book, links together facetious extravagances in prose and verse on a thread of narrative describing the perplexities of the suburbanite. Its delightful illustrations by A. B. Frost contributed almost as much as the text to the popularity of the book. Clark's travesties of the obituary lyric have been long remembered. At times rivalling the mock horrors of the Bab ballads, his mortuary burlesques go far to justify Augustine Birrell's dictum that the essence of American humour consists in speaking lightly of dreadful subjects. In spite of his pseudonym Clark was not one of the many dialect writers. The verbal humours of German-American speech were further exhibited, however, in the Yawcob Strauss rhymes of Charles Follen Adams. Negro dialect and certain broad aspects of darky pretentiousness were turned to laughable effect by Charles Bertrand Lewis (M. Quad) in The Lime-Kiln Club (1887) and other sketches. A
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Biblical scholarship and inspiration, 205 n. Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, 184 Bidwell, John, 150 Bienenstock, Melliotrophium, 573 Bierce, Ambrose, 92 Bigelow, E. B., 438 Bigelow, John, 141, 152 Bigelow, Poultney, 164 Biggers, Earl, 289 Biglow papers, the, 60, 61 Bill Nye. See Nye, Edgar Wilson Bill Arp so called, 352 Billings, Wm., 574 Billy boy, 511 Biography of Karl Marx, a, 600 Bird of paradise, the, 281 Bird, R. M., 268 Birds, the, 460 Birrell, Augustine, 26 Birth of a nation, the, 267 Bishop, W. H., 164 Bismarck, 41 Bits of travel, 164 Bitter sweet, 38 Bixby, Horace, 2 Blaettermann, George, 478, 479 Blaine, J. G., 15 Blair, Robert, 471 Blair, William, 386 Blake, E. V., 168 Bledsoe, A. T., 226 n., 229, 229 n 339 Bliss, P. P., 500 Blix, 93 Blodgett, S., Jr., 432 Bloodgood, Clara, 283 Blount, J. H., 165 B. L. T. See Taylor, Bert Leston Blue Mouse, the, 284 Blumgarten, S., 603-4 Boas, Franz,