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The fate of humor
University of Missouri Press
December 2002
On Sale: November 22, 2002
374 pages
ISBN: 0826214282
EAN: 9780826214287
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
In Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, James M. Cox
pursues the development of Mark Twain’s humor through all
the forms it took from “The Jumping Frog” to The
Mysterious Stranger. Instead of seeking the seriousness
behind the humor, Cox concentrates upon the humor itself as
the transfiguring power that converted all the “serious”
issues and emotions of Mark Twain’s life and time into
narratives designed to evoke helpless laughter. In those
sudden moments of pleasurable helplessness, we glimpse the
great heart of a writer who imagined freedom in the slave
society of his youth and discovered slavery in the free
country of his old age. For this edition of
Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, the author has written
a new introduction showing how and why Mark Twain remains a
central figure in American life; he has also appended an
essay disclosing why Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
will always be a hard book to take
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