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Author:   Joseph L. Coulombe
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032752150

ISBN 10:   1032752157
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction: Critical Intersections, Methodologies, and Goals Chapter 1 – When Humor Bombs: Masculinity in Crisis in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Chapter 2 – Weaponized Humor and Homosocial Bonding in Owen Wister’s The Virginian Chapter 3 – Performing Humor in Dorothy Parker’s Fiction: Female Masculinity and Reader Engagement Chapter 4 – Humor, Gender, and Community in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 5 – Subversive Humor in an Absurdly Gendered World: Joseph Heller’s Search for Meaning in Catch-22 Chapter 6 – “Anything for a Laugh”: Transgressive Humor and Liberated Masculinity in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint Chapter 7 – The Efficacy of Humor in Sherman Alexie’s Flight: Violence, Vulnerability, and the Post-9/11 World Works Cited Index

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Joseph L. Coulombe is a professor of American literature in the Department of English, Rowan University, New Jersey, United States. He is the author of two additional books, Reading Native American Literature (Routledge, 2011) and Mark Twain and the American West (U of Missouri Press, 2003), and multiple articles on various American writers, texts, and genres. His scholarship explores how literary narratives position readers in relation to shifting ideologies of gender, region, and race. Professor Coulombe earned his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1998 and his B.A. from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1989. He originally hails from La Crosse, Wisconsin, a Mississippi River town.

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