Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection

Covici, Pascal

ISBN 10: 0826210953 ISBN 13: 9780826210951

Published by Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.: Univ of Missouri Pr, 1996

Language: English

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Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection

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Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.: Univ of Missouri Pr

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1996

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English

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0826210953

ISBN 13

9780826210951

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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This work argues that much of the humour from which the young Mark Twain derived much of his early models had the same sort of arrogance as American Puritan thought. It also considers the work of writers such as Hawthorne, Melville and Howells.

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Pascal Covici, Jr., is E. A. Lilly Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is the author or editor of several books, including Mark Twain's Humor: The Image of a World.

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