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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...
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Admitting the influence of the Southwestern humorists on Mark Twain's work, Sloane attempts to assess the parallel importance of Northeastern literary comedy, the more overt political and satirical humor that culminates in the deadpan persona of Artemus Ward. Sloane argues that this latter tradition provided Twain with a focus for his egalitarian social vision and encouraged him to experiment in the making of his own fictional forms.
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