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Pages: 248
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Categories: American wit and humor
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This volume contains 16 reprinted and seven original essays. James Cox considers the vigor of American humor as an outgrowth of the nation's optimistic expansio
Essays on American Humor
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Walter Blair
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Walter Blair was the literary scholar who almost single-handedly gave the study of American humor significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writin
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Originally published in 1993. The purpose of this volume is to lay out documents which give an estimate of Mark Twain as a humourist in both historical scope an
American Humor
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Pages: 284
Authors: Constance Rourke
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-29 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Encyclopedia of the Essay
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Authors: Tracy Chevalier
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