Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979)

ISBN-13: 9780815395638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

David E. E. Sloane

Opis

Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

David E. E. Sloane