Allison Scheidegger Reising
Biographic Data
| ID | 6893908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Scheidegger Reising |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison Scheidegger |
| FAMILY NAME | Reising |
| SIGNATURE | REISING A S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Circumlocution Office of Washington”: Twain’s Interaction with Dickens’s Bureaucratic Satire
This article explores how Mark Twain’s satires of American bureaucracy draw on Charles Dickens’s popular satire of British bureaucracy through his fictional presentation of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit. The comparison between the British and American bureaucratic satires of Dickens and Twain, respectively, offers unique insight into American literary and political conceptions of progress and bureaucratic institutions. I trace Twain’…
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The Circumlocution Office of Washington”: Twain’s Interaction with Dickens’s Bureaucratic Satire
This article explores how Mark Twain’s satires of American bureaucracy draw on Charles Dickens’s popular satire of British bureaucracy through his fictional presentation of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit. The comparison between the British and American bureaucratic satires of Dickens and Twain, respectively, offers unique insight into American literary and political conceptions of progress and bureaucratic institutions. I trace Twain’…
American Literature and Humor Studies (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Language change (1 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (1 works) · Nonsense (1 works) · Order (exchange (1 works) · Politics (1 works) · Thomas Hardy Literature Studies (1 works)