Lost Leaders Essay 10 - American Humour

In which the curious distinctions of American humour are gently examined, revealing a blend of rusticity and puritanism that shapes the mirth of figures like Bret Harte, Artemus Ward, and Mark Twain. The narrative dwells on the rugged, sometimes audacious spirits of new-world characters and their humour’s robust mingling of the comic and the serious, set against a backdrop different from that of English mirth.