Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection

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Humor and revelation in American literature : the Puritan connection

Pascal Covici, Jr

University of Missouri Press, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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