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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1972 - 5/31/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)

Simm's Frontier Humor

FAIN: FB-11179-72

Texas State University - San Marcos (San Marcos, TX 78666-4684)
Mary Ann Wimsatt (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To investigate the literary and historical affiliations of two bodies of work not previously recognized as significanly interrelated--antebellum Southwestern or frontier humor and certain Simms novels which utilize this type of humor to express a vision of Southern frontier life.