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Author : Nils Erik Enkvist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (641 download)
Download or read book American humour in England before Mark Twain written by Nils Erik Enkvist and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Humour in England Before Mark Twain written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nils Erik Enkvist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book American Humour in England Before Mark Twain written by Nils Erik Enkvist and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy Wuster
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274110
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain, American Humorist 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. 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.
Author : Andrew King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042301
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers written by Andrew King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century. "This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE
Author : Barbara Korte
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383942593X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book History and Humour written by Barbara Korte and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to »popular« history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past.
Author : Judith Yaross Lee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 162674453X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Twain's Brand written by Judith Yaross Lee and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use “Mark Twain” as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, live performances, authorship, and entrepreneurship made “Mark Twain” the premier national and international brand of American humor in his day. And so it remains in ours, because Mark Twain's humor not only expressed views of self and society well ahead of its time, but also anticipated ways in which humor and culture coalesce in today's postindustrial information economy—the global trade in media, performances, and other forms of intellectual property that began after the Civil War. In Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture, Judith Yaross Lee traces four hallmarks of Twain's humor that are especially significant today. Mark Twain's invention of a stage persona, comically conflated with his biographical self, lives on in contemporary performances by Garrison Keillor, Margaret Cho, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jon Stewart. The postcolonial critique of Britain that underlies America's nationalist tall tale tradition not only self-destructs in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court but also drives the critique of American Exceptionalism in Philip Roth's literary satires. The semi-literate writing that gives Adventures of Huckleberry Finn its “vernacular vision”—wrapping cultural critique in ostensibly innocent transgressions and misunderstandings—has a counterpart in the apparently untutored drawing style and social critique seen in The Simpsons, Lynda Barry's comics, and The Boondocks. And the humor business of recent decades depends on the same brand-name promotion, cross-media synergy, and copyright practices that Clemens pioneered and fought for a century ago. Twain's Brand highlights the modern relationship among humor, commerce, and culture that were first exploited by Mark Twain.
Author : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385329795
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book American Humorists written by Hugh Reginald Haweis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782382747315
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (473 download)
Download or read book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. He attempts to modernize the past in order to make people's lives better, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power. Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor. It is a satire of feudalism and monarchy that also celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values while questioning the ideals of capitalism and outcomes of the Industrial Revolution. It is among several works by Twain and his contemporaries that mark the transition from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era of socioeconomic discourse. The novel is a comedy that sees sixth-century England and its medieval culture through Hank Morgan's view he is a nineteenth-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England where he meets King Arthur himself. Hank, who had an image of that time that had been colored over the years by romantic myths, takes on the task of analyzing the problems and sharing his knowledge from 1300 years in the future to try to modernize, Americanize, and improve the lives of the people
Author : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Humorists written by Hugh Reginald Haweis and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048684059X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The American Claimant written by Mark Twain and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthearted farce featuring an American charmed by the British aristocracy and a British earl equally intrigued by his conception of the nature of America's democratic society. Illustrated by Dan Beard.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Caricatures of Americans on the English Stage Prior to 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 10 includes "Tables générales des Séries de publications de Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1838-1938."
Author : Clarence Gohdes
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822305927
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A. written by Clarence Gohdes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN 13 : 1467787280
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court written by Mark Twain and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank, a 19th-Century New England factory manager, suffers a blow to the head that sends him back in time to medieval England. Determined to make the best of the situation, the Yankee attempts to modernize England, setting up schools and factories while trying to hide what he's doing from the Catholic Church and the British monarchy. This American novel written by humorist Mark Twain satirizes the idealized notions of the Middle Ages made popular by other writers of the time. This unabridged version of Twain's comedy, first published in 1889, includes illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard.
Author : Mark Twain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Minnie M. Brashear
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187530
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain written by Minnie M. Brashear and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguishes Mark Twain as, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “by far the greatest American writer.” Made up of short stories and excerpts from Twain’s principal works, this collection demonstrates Twain’s artistry in handling anecdotes, tales, description, and characterization; the fervency of his ethical convictions; his effective use of irony, satire, burlesque, and caricature; and his essential humanity. By arranging the materials in chronological order and weaving them together with critical commentary, the editors present the many facets of Mark Twain’s experience and his dynamic personality with greater continuity than in previous collections of Twain’s writings. Here is the optimism of the young Mark Twain responding to the rough and rugged vitality of the mid-nineteenth-century American scene, and the skepticism and pessimism of the older Mark Twain reacting to the American democratic experiment of the late nineteenth century.
Author : H. R. Haweis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330211397
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book American Humorists written by H. R. Haweis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Humorists A few words on wit and humor in general; a few more on American wit and humor in particular; and a good many on the wit and humor of Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte. I have read long and tiresome essays by Hazlitt and others, explaining the difference between wit and humor. I have lain awake at night thinking over the difference, and I have come to the conclusion - that there is none. I hasten to reveal this truth to the world because it has been such a comfort to me. Humor is the electric atmosphere, wit is the flash. A situation provides the atmospheric humor, and with the culminating point of it comes the flash. The character of Carlyles "Teufelsdroeckh" is perfectly steeped in a peculiar kind of dry and flowing humor, but when he says that England is composed of ten million of human beings - mostly fools, there is the flash. Out of such a tone of mind from such a humorous atmosphere, we may expect to draw a spark at almost any moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
