Mark Twain, American Humorist - Couverture souple

Wuster, Tracy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826221998 ISBN 13 : 9780826221995

Editeur : University of Missouri Press, 2019

Synopsis

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tracy Wuster teaches writing to electrical and computer engineers at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the president of the American Humor Studies Association and is the book review editor of its journal, Studies in American Humor. He is the editor of the online humor studies publication Humor in America and the Co-Director of the Humor in America Project at the University of Texas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Missouri Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826221998
• ISBN 13: 9780826221995
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne