Defining new yorker humor

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Download all slides. Sign in Don't already have an Oxford Academic account? You could not be signed in. While the beleaguered Little Man staggered through tales of the war between the sexes, equally discouraged women set their version of the battles into rhyme. Lee shows how The New Yorker 's eminence in cartoons blossomed as the captions were reduced to one line and as the subjects tweaked class and race prejudice, ridiculed feminism and modernism, lampooned urban customs and types, and created new relations between visual and verbal wit.

Lee's detailed and scholarly work covers the first five years of The New Yorker magazine She argues that The New Yorker's early style of humor featured the joining of the visual with the written, the use of modernistic techniques, and treating different types of New Yorkers as if they were residents of a small town. Lee examines comic verse, dialect stories, layout, covers, illustrations, style, and the organization of the magazine, as well as the work of the great names behind New Yorker humor—the Whites, Thurber, Arno, Irvin, Barton, Parker, and Hokinson.

Throughout, she places The New Yorker's early years in the tradition of American humor and the sociology of the s and treats the business aspects of the publication.