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9783639133295: Artemus Ward: The Gentle Humorist
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ISBN 10: 3639133293 ISBN 13: 9783639133295
Editorial: VDM Verlag, 2009

Sinopsis

Charles Ferrar Browne, also known as Artemus Ward, was arguably the first humorist in the United States with a national reputation. Even Mark Twain himself called Ward "America's greatest humorist" and described his 1863 "Babes in the Wood" lecture as the funniest thing he had ever heard. W.D. Howells also identified Ward as the person "who first gave the world a taste of the humor that characterizes the whole American people." A journalist who parlayed the success of his published letters into a successful career as the first comedic lecturer touring the nation, Ward brought prestige to American humor both nationally and abroad. Today, however, Ward's literary reputation is largely forgotten. This book, therefore, brings Ward's unique style of written humor and his lecturing success from the obscurity of the mid-nineteenth century into the significance of contemporary cultural studies. This work traces the growth of Ward's literary reputation by examining the rhetorical quality of his gentle satire that made his humor so vastly popular in his time. It is mainly useful to scholars of American humor and to anyone who delights in the comic power of the written and spoken word.

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Charles Ferrar Browne, also known as Artemus Ward, was arguably the first humorist in the United States with a national reputation. Even Mark Twain himself called Ward "America's greatest humorist" and described his 1863 "Babes in the Wood" lecture as the funniest thing he had ever heard. W.D. Howells also identified Ward as the person "who first gave the world a taste of the humor that characterizes the whole American people." A journalist who parlayed the success of his published letters into a successful career as the first comedic lecturer touring the nation, Ward brought prestige to American humor both nationally and abroad. Today, however, Ward's literary reputation is largely forgotten. This book, therefore, brings Ward's unique style of written humor and his lecturing success from the obscurity of the mid-nineteenth century into the significance of contemporary cultural studies. This work traces the growth of Ward's literary reputation by examining the rhetorical quality of his gentle satire that made his humor so vastly popular in his time. It is mainly useful to scholars of American humor and to anyone who delights in the comic power of the written and spoken word.

Biografía del autor

John Raymond Pascal, Cum Laude Graduate of Villanova University. M.B.A.: Marketing Concentration at Seton Hall University. M.A. in English: American Literature Concentration at Montclair State University. Formerly a Special Investigator for NASDAQ assigned to the F.B.I., he now teaches English at Seton Hall Preparatory School in New Jersey.

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Editorial
VDM Verlag
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3639133293
ISBN 13 
9783639133295
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
72
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