Todd Nathan Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5846370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Nathan Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Mr. Seward’s Real Estate Transactions”
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Secretary of State William Henry Seward led US efforts to purchase several new and far-flung territories, including (successfully) Alaska and (unsuccessfully) multiple Caribbean islands. This article examines several strands of popularly circulating periodical humor that ridiculed the United States’ nascent attempts at imperial acquisition, including humor and satire in newspaper squibs by Mark Twain and ot…
Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting
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, sub…
Reconstructive Realism
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Reconstructive Realism
Viral Jokes and Fugitive Humor in the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reprinting
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, sub…
“Mr. Seward’s Real Estate Transactions”
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Secretary of State William Henry Seward led US efforts to purchase several new and far-flung territories, including (successfully) Alaska and (unsuccessfully) multiple Caribbean islands. This article examines several strands of popularly circulating periodical humor that ridiculed the United States’ nascent attempts at imperial acquisition, including humor and satire in newspaper squibs by Mark Twain and ot…
American Literature and Humor Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Comics (2 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Newspaper (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Citation (1 work)