Books written by Hennig Cohen

  • Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: "man's Final Lore"
    Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: "man's Final Lore"

    They also show how the author's struggle with these pressures are manifested in his writing. This volume is published in cooperation with the New York Public Library.

  • Humor of the Old Southwest
    Humor of the Old Southwest

    One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861 in an area that extended from Virginia, the ...

  • America Celebrates!: A Patchwork of Weird & Wonderful Holiday Lore
    America Celebrates!: A Patchwork of Weird & Wonderful Holiday Lore

    Presents the folklore associated with calendar customs and festivals that have become an integral part of the social habits of North Americans in general, as well as regional, occupational, or...

  • The Folklore of American Holidays
    The Folklore of American Holidays

    Covers more than 125 holidays including well-known religious and secular holidays as well as more obscure celebrations. Chronologically arranged, from New Year's Day through Christmas, entries include a description of...

  • The Folklore of American Holidays
    The Folklore of American Holidays

    A compilation of more than 500 beliefs, legends, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, poems, songs, dances, games, plays, pageants, fairs, foods, and processions associated with over 120 American calendar customs and festivals.