Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
High quality reprint of Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. Cobb.
Sundry Accounts
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
High quality reprint of Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. Cobb.
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
High quality reprint of Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. Cobb.
The Works of Irvin S. Cobb: Back home. [2] The escape of Mr. Trimm. [3] From place to place. [4] Local color. [5] Myself to date. [6] Old Judge Priest. [7] Snake doctor. [8] Speaking of operations. [9] Sundry accounts. [10] Those times and these
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Works of Irvin S. Cobb...: Sundry accounts
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Irvin S. Cobb
Author: William E. Ellis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174007
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This biography of a little-remembered Southern humorist “delivers on its claim that Cobb’s life is emblematic of changes that registered on a larger scale” (Journal of Southern History). “Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.” ?Irvin S. Cobb Born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century’s most celebrated writers. As a staff reporter for the New York World and Saturday Evening Post, he became one of the highest-paid journalists in the United States. He also wrote short stories for noted magazines, published books, and penned scripts for the stage and screen. In Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of a Southern Humorist, historian William E. Ellis examines the life of this significant writer. Though a consummate wordsmith and a talented observer of the comical in everyday life, Cobb was a product of the Reconstruction era and the Jim Crow South. As a party to the endemic racism of his time, he often bemoaned the North’s harsh treatment of the South and stereotyped African Americans in his writings. Marred by racist undertones, Cobb’s work has largely slipped into obscurity. Nevertheless, Ellis argues that Cobb’s life and works are worthy of more detailed study, citing his wide-ranging contributions to media culture and his coverage of some of the biggest stories of his day, including on-the-ground reporting during World War I. A valuable resource for students of journalism, American humor, and popular culture, this illuminating biography explores Cobb’s life and his influence on early twentieth-century letters.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174007
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This biography of a little-remembered Southern humorist “delivers on its claim that Cobb’s life is emblematic of changes that registered on a larger scale” (Journal of Southern History). “Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.” ?Irvin S. Cobb Born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century’s most celebrated writers. As a staff reporter for the New York World and Saturday Evening Post, he became one of the highest-paid journalists in the United States. He also wrote short stories for noted magazines, published books, and penned scripts for the stage and screen. In Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of a Southern Humorist, historian William E. Ellis examines the life of this significant writer. Though a consummate wordsmith and a talented observer of the comical in everyday life, Cobb was a product of the Reconstruction era and the Jim Crow South. As a party to the endemic racism of his time, he often bemoaned the North’s harsh treatment of the South and stereotyped African Americans in his writings. Marred by racist undertones, Cobb’s work has largely slipped into obscurity. Nevertheless, Ellis argues that Cobb’s life and works are worthy of more detailed study, citing his wide-ranging contributions to media culture and his coverage of some of the biggest stories of his day, including on-the-ground reporting during World War I. A valuable resource for students of journalism, American humor, and popular culture, this illuminating biography explores Cobb’s life and his influence on early twentieth-century letters.
Sundry Accounts
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
High quality reprint of Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. Cobb.
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
High quality reprint of Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. Cobb.
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Irvin S. Cobb
Author: Wayne Chatterton
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Works of Irvin S. Cobb
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Southern Writers
Author: Joseph M. Flora
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807148555
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807148555
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description