| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain. By James H. Justus. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xvi, 591 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-8262-1544-0.)

This is easily the most important book-length interpretation of its subject since the publication of Kenneth Lynn's Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor (1959), which it significantly revises. Incorporating the studies of historians and literary critics, observations of contemporaries, and (readable) literary theory into a comprehensive analysis of over two dozen humorous writers, James H. Justus has thoughtful things to say about each one. Every historian who uses humor as a source for understanding the South should read this book.

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