Mark Twain, American Humorist

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8262-2056-1
Verlag: University of Missouri Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Mark Twain and His Circle

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. As this insightful book explores, in the late 1860s Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved intomore respectable speaking and publication venues in the 1870s, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between classappropriate leisure and burgeoning formsof mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wuster, Tracy

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Wuster teaches writing to electrical and computer engineers at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the president of the American Humor Studies Association, and is the book review editor of its journal, Studies in American Humor. He is the codirector of the Humor in America Project at the University of Texas and editor of the publication Humor in America.