1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979)
By David E. E. Sloane
Copyright 1979
236 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1979, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour. The Southwest provided the subject for much of Twain’s writing, but the roots of his style lay principally in north-eastern humour. In the mid-1800s the northern United States underwent social changes that reflected in the writing of the literary humourists like Twain.... Read more
Acknowledgements
1. Backgrounds
2. Literary Comedy
3. Artemus Ward as a Pioneer Funnyman
4. The Social Ethics of a Comedian
5. Mark Twain the Development of a Literary Comedian
6. Toward the Novel
7. Humour and Social Criticism, The Gilded Age and The Prince and the Pauper
8. Adventures of Hucklebury Finn, the Literary Comedian Within the Novel
9. A Connecticut Yankee, a Culmination of American Literary Comedy
10. The American Claimant and Pudd’nhead Wilson
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David E. E. Sloane
