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(0)James M Cox
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James M. Cox pursues the development of Mark Twain's humor through all its forms, concentrating upon the humor itself as the transfiguring power that converted all the "serious" issues and emotions of Mark Twain's life and time into narratives designed to evoke helpless laughter. Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, captures the great heart of a writer who imagined freedom in the slave society of his youth and discovered slavery in the free country of his...
4) One hundred years of Huckleberry Finn: the boy, his book, and American culture : centennial essays
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Twenty-five essays written by a group of scholars which reassesses the status of Twain's Huckleberry Finn in American literature and in contemporary American culture, reevaluating past scholarship and exploring new directions. A biography of the book's first hundred years (in 1985).