Finley Peter Dunne & Mr. Dooley : the Chicago years / / Charles Fanning

• Autore: Fanning Charles
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1978; ©1978
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5/207
• Soggetto topico: Dooley, Mr. (Fictitious character); Irish Americans in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Chicago (Ill.) In literature
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. CHICAGO BACKGROUNDS The Genesis of Mr. Dooley; 2. MR. DOOLEY IN BRIDGEPORT The Creation of a Community; 3. MR. DOOLEY IN BRIDGEPORT The Dissolution of a Community; 4. THE IRISH IN AMERICAN POLITICS The View from Archer Avenue; Illustrations; 5. CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN IN CHICAGO Dunne & Irish-American Nationalism; 6. FROM BRIDGEPORT TO MANILA Mr. Dooley Becomes a National Sage; 7. CONCLUSION; Appendix: An Annotated Chronology of Dunne's Dialect Pieces in the Chicago Evening Post; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist, is justly famous for his creation of Mr. Dooley, the Chicago Irish barkeep whose weekly commentary on national politics, war, and human nature kept Americans chuckling over their newspapers for nearly two decades at the beginning of this century. Largely forgotten in the files of Chicago newspapers, however, are over 300 Mr. Dooley columns written in the 1890's before national syndication made his name a household word. Charles Fanning offers here the first critical examination of these early Dooley pieces, which, far better than the later
• Titolo autorizzato: Finley Peter Dunne & Mr. Dooley
• ISBN: 0-8131-8795-8; 0-8131-6261-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820641503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II