- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Georgia humorists
- Creator:
- Andrews, Carol M.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Price, Michael E., 1953-
- Date of Original:
- 2003-09-17
- Subject:
- Humorists--Georgia
Authors, American--Georgia
Lawyers--Georgia
Newspaper editors--Georgia
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870
Thompson, William Tappan, 1812-1882
Lamar, J. B. (John Basil), 1812-1862
Burke, T. A. (Thomas A.), 1828-1880
Robinson, Francis James - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Georgia humorists, early-nineteenth-century writers who published satiric sketches about the lawlessness and debauchery of frontier conditions in antebellum Georgia. Mostly lawyers, newspaper editors, and other professional men, they included Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870), William Tappan Thompson (1812-82), and John Basil Lamar (1812-62). Lesser-known writers were T. A. Burke, T. W. Lane, Oliver H. Prince, and Francis James Robinson. More conservative than the later writers who followed the southwestern expansion of the frontier toward the Mississippi River (such Southwest humorists as Johnson Jones Hooper of Alabama, Thomas Bangs Thorpe of Louisiana, and George Washington Harris of Tennessee), the Georgia humorists strove to protect plantation society from further erosion by satirizing the earthiness, deceit, and violence of the frontier.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/georgia-humorists/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Georgia Humorists," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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