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"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...

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Autor principal: Wuster, Tracy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Humor.
Wit and humor > Social aspects.
American wit and humor.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Humour > Aspect social > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Humour americain > Histoire et critique.
Wit and humor > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
Humor.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--Publisher's website
Descripción Física:1 online resource (501 pages): illustrations, portraits
ISBN:9780826274113

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