Author: Henry B. Wonham

Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant an …

Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain’s fiction. Focusing on the writer’s experiments with narrative structure, Wonham de …

Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant an …

This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an …