{"product_id":"how-the-other-half-laughs-the-comic-sensibility-in-american-culture-1895-1920-hardcover","title":"How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Lee Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the \"other half\" laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity--how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole's argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them--including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens--and traces the form's emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Lee Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity\u003c\/i\u003e; editor of \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner\u003c\/i\u003e; and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eZora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays\u003c\/i\u003e. She is editor of the scholarly journal \u003ci\u003eAmerican Periodicals \u003c\/i\u003eand a former president of the Research Society for American Periodicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716815458367,"sku":"9781496826527","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c46a435056e8575c8183222a89ec261b.webp?v=1765076284","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/how-the-other-half-laughs-the-comic-sensibility-in-american-culture-1895-1920-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}