David E. E. Sloane

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351181549
• Artikelnr.: 54097091

Autorenporträt

David E. E. Sloane

Inhaltsangabe

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