A.C. Ward
Alan Gribben
American Humor
American literary criticism
American Literature
Archibald Henderson
Artemus Ward
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Clyde Grimm
Colonel Sellers
comic persona analysis
Corrupted Hadleyburg
cultural identity studies
David E.E. Sloane
Durant Da Ponte
E. Henry Nash Smith
Edgar M. Branch
Edith Wyatt
Edward F. Foster
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evolution of American humour theory
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Franklin R. Rogers
George Ade
Gilded Age
Hamlin Hill
Henry Watterson
Holds
Humor
Humour
Inclined
Innocents Abroad
James M. Cox
Joan Of Arc
Jumping Frog
Laura E. Skandera-Trombley
Leslie A. Fiedler
literary canon formation
Livy
Louis J. Budd
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Humor
Mark Twain's Work
Mark Twain’s Work
Martha McCulloch Williams
Michael J. Kiskis
nineteenth-century satire
Odd
Pascal Covici
Persona
Prince And The Pauper
race and literature scholarship
Rufus A. Coleman
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Spokesman
Susan K. Harris
Susanne Weil
Van Wyck Brooks
Walter Blair
White America
Will M. Clemens
William Dean Howells
Wo
Young Men
Young Satan
Product details
- ISBN 9781138300699
- Weight: 952g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1993. The purpose of this volume is to lay out documents which give an estimate of Mark Twain as a humourist in both historical scope and in the analysis of modern scholars. The emphasis in this collection is on how Twain developed from a contemporary humourist among many others of his generation into a major comic writer and American spokesman and, in several more recent essays by younger Twain scholars, the outcomes of that development late in his career. The essays determine how the humor takes on meaning and importance and how the humor works in a number of ways in the literary canon and even in the persona of Mark Twain.
