Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters (eBook)

Michael Lofaro (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2001
1 Seiten
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-5369-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator of a collection of outrageous tall tales about women in the same Crocket Almanacs in which he ';recorded' his own adventures. Conceived as a marketing device by nineteenth-century publishers hoping to gain a share of the lucrative almanac market, such stories made these slim volumes the best-selling and longest-running series of comic almanacs published in the United States before the Civil War. Booking back at them now, the Crocket Almanacs offer a true ';fun house mirror' view of the culture of antebellum America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8117-5369-7 / 0811753697
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-5369-2 / 9780811753692