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Mark Twain, American Humorist

Download or Read eBook Mark Twain, American Humorist PDF written by Tracy Wuster and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mark Twain, American Humorist
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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9780826274113
ISBN-13 : 0826274110
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Book Synopsis Mark Twain, American Humorist by : Tracy Wuster

Book excerpt: 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.


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