| Mark Twain's Humor: Critical Essays Contributor(s): Sloane, David E. E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138300675 ISBN-13: 9781138300675 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: The American Novel |
| Physical Information: 662 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |