Sieben Meister des Literarischen Humors in England und Amerika.

Author / Editor
Schmidt-Hidding, Wolfgang.

Title
Sieben Meister des Literarischen Humors in England und Amerika.

Published
Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer, 1959.

Physical Description
168 pp.

Description
Opens with a chapter on Chaucer (pp. 9-35)--followed by ones about William Shakespeare, Henry Fielding, Thomas Sterne, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain--surveying his self-portraits, narrative poses, characterizations, ironies, and the range and development of his uses of humor, focusing on TC and selections from CT

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Back ground and General Criticism