Nativist American Humour
Sam Slick and the Defense of New England Whig Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894843 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew R Laird (0000-0003-0967-3175, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 71-88 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-023-04-04 |
| OpenAlex | W2023617496 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
When Professor Cornelius Conway Felton of Harvard was laid to rest in the spring of 1862, he was remembered as a man of warmth and wit, with a sense of humour which, though easily animated, never undermined the "manliness of his character" (Woolsey 1862, 16). "The spirit of Aristopha- nes lodged in Professor Felton," remarked Theodore Woolsey, president of Yale College; "he had the same sense of the ludicrous, the same keen judgment of character, the same underlying earnestness of patriotism, the same political conservatism" (8). Like many of his Harvard colleagues, Fel- ton was also a "reverent and devout" Unitarian, a conservative Whig, and a lively and prolific contributor to the staid organ of the Boston intellectual aristocracy, the North American Review (19)
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| Highly cited | No |
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