David E. E. Sloane

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

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Produktbeschreibung

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. 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. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution, these humorous articles, sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• 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