Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting

IF 0.9 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2021-03-25 DOI:10.5325/STUDAMERHUMOR.7.1.0061

Thompson

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Too few humor scholars have taken advantage of new resources and research methodologies for studying humor as it circulated in newspapers and magazines in the nineteenth-century US. This article argues that tracing reprints of comic material in periodicals unearths popular nineteenth-century US humor. Such recovery is important because the jokes that readers and editors read and recycled reveal both their fascinations and fears. Additionally, subsequent reprints reshape meaning to fit a different moment for a different audience. To exemplify this approach, this article performs readings of one viral joke that was reprinted over a hundred times in American periodicals between 1856 and 1877. It identifies publication clusters and trends, notes how the joke morphed over time, and considers its shifting meanings as it appeared in different publication outlets and contexts at different times alongside different news items.

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19世纪重印文化中的病毒式笑话和逃逸式幽默

摘要:随着19世纪美国幽默在报纸杂志上的流行，很少有幽默学者利用新的资源和研究方法来研究幽默。本文认为，通过追踪期刊中漫画材料的再版，可以发现19世纪美国流行的幽默。这种恢复是很重要的，因为读者和编辑阅读和循环使用的笑话揭示了他们的迷恋和恐惧。此外，随后的重印重塑了意义，以适应不同的观众在不同的时刻。为了举例说明这种方法，本文对一个广为流传的笑话进行了解读，这个笑话在1856年至1877年间在美国期刊上被重印了一百多次。它确定了出版集群和趋势，记录了这个笑话是如何随着时间的推移而演变的，并考虑了它在不同的出版渠道和背景下在不同的时间和不同的新闻项目中出现时的含义变化。

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

90.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Welcome to the home of Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association. Founded by the American Humor Studies Association in 1974 and published continuously since 1982, StAH specializes in humanistic research on humor in America (loosely defined) because the universal human capacity for humor is always expressed within the specific contexts of time, place, and audience that research methods in the humanities strive to address. Such methods now extend well beyond the literary and film analyses that once formed the core of American humor scholarship to a wide range of critical, biographical, historical, theoretical, archival, ethnographic, and digital studies of humor in performance and public life as well as in print and other media. StAH’s expanded editorial board of specialists marks that growth. On behalf of the editorial board, I invite scholars across the humanities to submit their best work on topics in American humor and join us in advancing knowledge in the field.