| Mark Twain, American Humorist: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Wuster, Tracy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826221998 ISBN-13: 9780826221995 Publisher: University of Missouri Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Humor - Humor - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810 |
| Series: Mark Twain and His Circle |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 504 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |