Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in ScholarshipMichael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley University of Missouri Press, 2001 - 252 Seiten The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social, and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen. The essays illuminate Clemens's connections with people and events not usually given the spotlight and introduce us to Clemens as a man deeply embroiled in the process of making literary gold out of everyday experiences. From Clemens's wonderings on race and identity to his looking to family and domesticity as defining experiences, from musings on the language that Clemens used so effectively to consideration of the images and processes of composition, these essays challenge long-held notions of why Clemens was so successful and so influential a writer. While that search itself is not new, the varied approaches within this collection highlight markedly inventive ways of reading the life and work of Samuel Clemens. |
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... Father 28 VICTOR A. DOYNO “To his preferred friends he revealed his true character” Mary Mason Fairbanks's Disguised Debate with Sam Clemens 50 J. D. STAHL Mark Twain's Mechanical Marvels 72 JEFFREY STEINBRINK Steamboats, Cocaine, and ...
... Father." Noting that nineteenth-century norms are decidedly different from contemporary ones, Doyno discusses Twain's parents as well as his middle-child placement within the family. He also points out Twain's interest in family ...
... father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit the business."4 Four paragraphs later, however, that new judge is full of regrets after Pap's short-lived reform and "reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shot-gun, maybe ...
... father; it is the release for Joan of Arc; it is the gift that Satan brings in "The Mysterious Stranger." Death prompts Twain to rejoice in the destruction of Eden in the diaries of Adam and Eve; it is the last, the most potent, of "The ...
... good deal more success when he set aside the wool and furs of the frontier for the homespun and silk of the household. Samuel Clemensas Family Man and Father VICTOR A. DOYNO Was TWAIN AND THE TRADITION OF LITERARY DOMESTICITY 27.
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To his preferred friends he revealed his true character | 50 |
Mark Twains Mechanical Marvels | 72 |
Steamboats Cocaine and Paper Money | 87 |
Mark Twain Isabel Lyon and the Talking Cure | 101 |
The Minstrel and the Detective | 123 |
Huck Jim and the BlackandWhite Fallacy | 139 |
Black Genes and White Lies | 169 |
Mark Twain in Large and Small | 193 |
JOHN BIRD | 206 |
WORKS CITED | 227 |
INDEX | 243 |