THE OLD SOUTHWEST
Clement Eaton
SOURCE: "The Southern Yeoman: The Humorists' View and the Reality," in The Mind of the Old South, revised edition, Louisiana State University Press, 1967, pp. 130-51.
[In this excerpt, Eaton examines the historical accuracy of antebellum humor writing, maintaining that, despite occasional distortions of truth, the works are valuable and generally accurate historical documents.]
In studying the writings of the Southern humorists of the antebellum period the social historian has a different purpose from that...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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