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Constructing Mark Twain : new directions in scholarship

The 13 essays in this collection offer a nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. As a whole they argue that 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.
eBook, English, ©2001
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) : illustrations.
9780826263551, 9780826213778, 9781417528318, 0826263550, 0826213774, 1417528311
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Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. Kiskis
Samuel Clemens as family man and father / Victor A. Doyno
"To his preferred friends he revealed his true character": Mary Mason Fairbank's disguised debate with Sam Clemens" / J.D. Stahl
Mark Twain's mechanical marvels / Jeffrey Steinbrink
Steamboats, cocaine, and paper money: Mark Twain rewriting himself / Robert Sattelmeyer
Mark Twain, Isabel Lyon, and the "talking cure": negotiating nostalgia and nihilism in the Autobiography / Jennifer L. Zaccara
The minstrel and the detective: the functions of ethnic caricature in Mark Twain's writings of the 1890's / Henry B. Wonham
Huck, Jim, and the "black-and-white" fallacy / James S. Leonard
Humor, sentimentality, and Mark Twain's black characters / David L. Smith
Black genes and white lies: Twain and the romance of race / Ann M. Ryan
Mark Twain in large and small / the infinite and the infinitesimal in Twain's late writing / Tom Quirk
Mark Twain studies and the myth of metaphor / John Bird
"Who killed Mark Twain?" Long live Samuel Clemens! / Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Gary Scharnhorst
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English