Henry B Wonham: 2 books
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
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 overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating...
Playing the Races
Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
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 and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick...