Introduces the life and work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the writer better known as Mark Twain, examines his influence on American literature, and analyzes his travel writing, his best-known novels, and his other works.

Product Description: Identifies the directions and themes that will make up the field of American humour studies in the 21st century and offers undestanding of what is increasingly recognized as a defining medium of American democracy - humour. The study of American humour as a cultural denominator is changing from the limited review of southwestern vernacular writers leading up to Mark Twain into a broad field with feminist, popular-cultural, ethnic and international components...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Sloane, David E. E.

Literary criticism of Twain's greatest work

Literary criticism of Twain's greatest work

Product Description: This first annotated guide devoted entirely to American humor magazines and periodicals provides a comprehensive survey of a genre that has both enriched and reflected American mores, popular culture, and literature for over two hundred years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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