{"product_id":"how-the-other-half-laughs-the-comic-sensibility-in-american-culture-1895-1920-paperback","title":"How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Lee Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking up the role of laughter in society, \u003ci\u003eHow the Other Half Laughs: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cole 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York World \u003c\/i\u003eand William Randolph Hearst's \u003ci\u003eJournal-American \u003c\/i\u003eand how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. \u003ci\u003eHow the Other Half Laughs\u003c\/i\u003e restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45444948263014,"sku":"9781496826534","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/TEIVw3Ji069781496826534.webp?v=1776099028","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/how-the-other-half-laughs-the-comic-sensibility-in-american-culture-1895-1920-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}