Bøker av Joseph L. Coulombe

Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction offers a pragmatic and theoretically informed model for analyzing how humor and gender intersect in key U.S. texts, bringing much needed attention to the complex ways that humor can both support and subvert masculine codes and behaviors in American literature, culture, and thought.

Joseph Coulombe maintains that for over 25 years, Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify his public image. Coulombe analyses the stereotypes Twain uses and explores his struggle to find a new model of the West.