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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain

J.R. LeMaster,James D. Wilson
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain Book PDF

Author : J.R. LeMaster,James D. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135881283

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"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention is given to the delicate relationship between art and life, between artistic interpretations and their factual source. This comprehensive resource includes information on: Twain’s life and times: the author's childhood in Missouri and apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, early career as a journalist in the West, world travels, friendships with well-known figures, reading and education, family life and career Complete Works: including novels, travel narratives, short stories, sketches, burlesques, and essays Significant characters, places, and landmarks Recurring concerns, themes or concepts: such as humor, language; race, war, religion, politics, imperialism, art and science Twain’s sources and influences. Useful for students, researchers, librarians and teachers, this volume features a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry also includes a bibliography for further study.

The Mark Twain Encyclopedia

J. R. LeMaster,James Darrell Wilson,Christie Graves Hamric
The Mark Twain Encyclopedia Book PDF

Author : J. R. LeMaster,James Darrell Wilson,Christie Graves Hamric
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 082407212X

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A reference guide to the great American author (1835-1910) for students and general readers. The approximately 740 entries, arranged alphabetically, are essentially a collection of articles, ranging significantly in length and covering a variety of topics pertaining to Twain's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's writing reflects Samuel Clemens's personal experience, particular attention is given to the interface between art and life, i.e., between imaginative reconstructions and their factual sources of inspiration. Each entry is accompanied by a selective bibliography to guide readers to sources of additional information. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain

J.R. LeMaster,James D. Wilson
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain Book PDF

Author : J.R. LeMaster,James D. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135881351

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain by J.R. LeMaster,James D. Wilson Pdf

"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention is given to the delicate relationship between art and life, between artistic interpretations and their factual source. This comprehensive resource includes information on: Twain’s life and times: the author's childhood in Missouri and apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, early career as a journalist in the West, world travels, friendships with well-known figures, reading and education, family life and career Complete Works: including novels, travel narratives, short stories, sketches, burlesques, and essays Significant characters, places, and landmarks Recurring concerns, themes or concepts: such as humor, language; race, war, religion, politics, imperialism, art and science Twain’s sources and influences. Useful for students, researchers, librarians and teachers, this volume features a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry also includes a bibliography for further study.

The Life of Mark Twain

Gary Scharnhorst
The Life of Mark Twain Book PDF

Author : Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826274304

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The Life of Mark Twain by Gary Scharnhorst Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891. During this time he wrote and published some of his best-known works, including Roughing It, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Significant events include his trips to England (1872–73) and Bermuda (1877); the controversy over his Whittier Birthday Speech in December 1877; his 1878–79 Wanderjahr on the continent; his 1882 tour of the Mississippi valley; his 1884–85 reading tour with George Washington Cable; his relationships with his publishers (Elisha Bliss, James R. Osgood, Andrew Chatto, and Charles L. Webster); the death of his son, Langdon, and the births and childhoods of his daughters Susy, Clara, and Jean; as well as the several lawsuits and personal feuds in which he was involved. During these years, too, Clemens expressed his views on racial and gender equality and turned to political mugwumpery; supported the presidential campaigns of Grover Cleveland; advocated for labor rights, international copyright, and revolution in Russia; founded his own publishing firm; and befriended former president Ulysses S. Grant, supervising the publication of Grant’s Memoirs. The Life of Mark Twain is the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in more than a century and has already been hailed as the definitive Twain biography.

Mark Twain & France

Paula Harrington,Ronald Jenn
Mark Twain France Book PDF

Author : Paula Harrington,Ronald Jenn
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826273772

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Mark Twain & France by Paula Harrington,Ronald Jenn Pdf

Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be “American” in the second half of the nineteenth century. While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s relationship with France as hostile, Harrington and Jenn see Twain’s use of the French as a foil to help construct his identity as “the representative American.” Examining new materials that detail his Montmatre study, the carte de visite album, and a chronology of his visits to France, the book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Original Text Edition

Alan Gribben
Mark Twain s Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Original Text Edition Book PDF

Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603062404

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Original Text Edition by Alan Gribben Pdf

This coming-of-age story captures a vanished world of outdoor action and introduces Mark Twain’s two most enduring literary characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. In a novel that Twain termed a “hymn to boyhood,” Tom and Huck fish and swim in the Mississippi River, search for buried treasure, and hide in a haunted house. Tom Sawyer falls for pretty Becky Thatcher, tricks his pals into painting a fence for him, and stages an elaborate prank on the schoolmaster. Around the edges of this idyllic boy-life, however, loom dangerous events in the fictional village of St. Petersburg: Tom and Huck witness a midnight murder in a graveyard, the killer escapes from the courtroom while Tom is testifying, Tom and Becky become lost in a labyrinthine cave, and two sinister villains plot robbery and revenge against a wealthy widow. This Original Text Edition faithfully follows the wording of the first edition, and the editor supplies a historical and literary introduction as well as a guide to Twain’s satirical targets

Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition

Alan Gribben
Mark Twain s Adventures of Tom Sawyer The NewSouth Edition Book PDF

Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603062343

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition by Alan Gribben Pdf

In a radical departure from standard editions, the coming-of-age story that introduces Mark Twain’s two most enduring literary characters—Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn—is published here with its disturbing racial labels translated as “slave” and “Indian.” Everything else is completely intact in a novel that Twain termed a “hymn to boyhood.” Tom and Huck fish and swim in the Mississippi River, search for buried treasure, and hide in a haunted house. Around the edges of this idyllic boy-life, however, loom dangerous events in the fictional village of St. Petersburg: Tom and Huck witness a midnight murder in a graveyard, the killer escapes from the courtroom while Tom is testifying, and two sinister villains plot robbery and revenge against a wealthy widow. Readers can follow the boys’ adventures without confronting the dozens of racial slurs that are available in other editions of the book. The editor supplies a historical and literary introduction as well as a guide to Twain’s satirical targets.

Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context

Leslie Diane Myrick,Gary Scharnhorst
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context Book PDF

Author : Leslie Diane Myrick,Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817361044

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Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context by Leslie Diane Myrick,Gary Scharnhorst Pdf

"A rich visual history that traces Twain's distinguished depictions in newspaper and magazine illustrations. Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910 is the first monograph to explore the production, reception, and history of Mark Twain's public persona through the contextualization of the vast collection of cartoons and caricatures penned in his likeness throughout his life, career, and even death. Tracing Twain's depiction across more than seventy illustrations, this work offers a new lens through which to study the famous writer and social critic. Already a popular subject of photography, as printing technologies advanced, Mark Twain found himself to also be a popular muse for newspaper and magazine illustrators. Between 1869 and his death in 1910, Twain was the subject of more than six hundred caricatures and cartoons published around the world. Instantly recognizable by his overemphasized mustache and bushily-drawn eyebrows, it was not just the familiarity of his image that made him a regular feature in visual commentary, but also his willingness to speak out against corruption and to insert himself into controversies of his day. Unlike photographs, these illustrations stripped him of his ability to manipulate his public perception and control his brand, providing a more authentic look at his contentious reputation in the 19th and 20th century political sphere and the significance of his reception around the world. Along with his legacy, Twain left behind an archive brimming with evidence of a rich print culture and history that has not, until now, been scrutinized. Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain offers a carefully curated collection of these illustrations and thought-provoking contextual material with which to examine Twain's global reputation and reception"--

Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

Alan Gribben
Mark Twain s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn The Original Text Edition Book PDF

Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603062381

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition by Alan Gribben Pdf

Mark Twain’s two most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that he originally envisioned. Twain started writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn soon after finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but difficulties with the sequel took him eight years to resolve. Consequently his contemporary readers failed to view the volumes as the companion books he had intended. In the twentieth century, publishers, librarians, and academics continued to separate the two titles, with the result that they are seldom read sequentially even though they feature many of the same characters and their narratives open in the identical Mississippi River village, St. Petersburg. This Original Text Edition brings the stories back together and faithfully follows the wording of the first editions.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

Alan Gribben
Mark Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Original Text Edition Book PDF

Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603062428

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition by Alan Gribben Pdf

Perennially listed among the classics of American literature, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) broke new ground by allowing a teenage boy to narrate his own story. The son of a cruel town drunkard, Huck Finn vividly describes his friendship with Tom Sawyer, his resolve to run away from his abusive father, and his decision to join a runaway slave named Jim in a search for freedom. Jim and Huck’s days and nights on a raft floating down the Mississippi River form one of the most evocative stories of interracial bonding ever written, and the bizarre characters they encounter in their journey are memorably sketched. Though comical in places, ultimately the book warns about the price of immoral social conformity. Editor Alan Gribben explains the historical and literary context of Twain’s novel and vigorously defends it against the many critics who fault its language, relationships, and conclusion. Gribben also supplies a helpful guide to Twain’s satirical targets. This Original Text Edition faithfully follows the wording of the first edition.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition

Alan Gribben
Mark Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The NewSouth Edition Book PDF

Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603062367

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition by Alan Gribben Pdf

In a radical departure from standard editions, Mark Twain’s most famous novel is published here with one disturbing racial label translated as “slave.” In seeking to record accurately the speech of uneducated boys and adults along the Mississippi River in the 1840s, Twain casually included an epithet that is diminishing the potential audience for his masterpiece. While dozens of other editions preserve the inflammatory slur that the author employed for the sake of realism, the NewSouth Edition proves that the main point of Twain’s masterpiece—the immense harm deriving from inhumane social conformity—comes through just as vibrantly without obliging readers to confront hundreds of insulting racial pejoratives. The editor’s Introduction supplies the historical and literary context for Twain’s groundbreaking book, along with a helpful guide to his satirical targets.

Mark Twain and Money

Henry B. Wonham,Lawrence Howe
Mark Twain and Money Book PDF

Author : Henry B. Wonham,Lawrence Howe
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817319441

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Mark Twain and Money by Henry B. Wonham,Lawrence Howe Pdf

Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life

Mark Twain's Mississippi River

R. Kent Rasmussen,Peter Schilling
Mark Twain s Mississippi River Book PDF

Author : R. Kent Rasmussen,Peter Schilling
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627882446

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Mark Twain's Mississippi River by R. Kent Rasmussen,Peter Schilling Pdf

DIVCombine the wild waters of the Mississippi River and wordsmith Mark Twain, and what have you got? Some of the most famous and familiar literary works in American history, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age, and Life on the Mississippi. Twain spent the first half of his life on and around the river, from his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, to his years as a steamboat pilot, during which he traveled up and down the river as far south as New Orleans./divDIV/divDIVCommemorating one of America’s most beloved authors and the landscape he portrayed in his works, Mark Twain’s Mississippi River includes illustrations from various editions of his books, both fiction and nonfiction; maps; historical photographs; landscape paintings of the river and its inhabitants; and modern photography of towns and countryside, showing how much the landscape has changed (or hasn’t) since the days of Huckleberry Finn./divDIV/divDIVFilled with excerpts, quotations, newspaper clippings, and commentaries, this book is full of historical information about the life of Samuel Clemens, his literary creations, and the river that figured so prominently in both. With over 200 beautiful photos and a knowledgeable narrative written by Twain scholar and author R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain’s Mississippi River is simply a joy to read for anyone who loves to discover the reality behind the writer./div

The Theory and Practice of Reception Study

Philip Goldstein
The Theory and Practice of Reception Study Book PDF

Author : Philip Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000567557

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The Theory and Practice of Reception Study by Philip Goldstein Pdf

This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, the book discusses theories of reader-response and reception study and elaborates a theory of reception study based on the historical or "archeological" methods of Michel Foucault. As a consequence, unlike most studies of American literature, which discuss its historical contexts or prescribe its readers’ responses, this book explains the reception of these works, including the academic criticism and reviews and, because the internet exerts immense influence in the twenty-first century, the on-line responses of ordinary readers. Unlike most reception studies, this book examines the institutional contexts of the readers’ responses.

Belligerent Muse

Stephen Cushman
Belligerent Muse Book PDF

Author : Stephen Cushman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469618784

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Belligerent Muse by Stephen Cushman Pdf

War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Considering their writings both as literary expressions and as efforts to record the rigors of the war, Cushman analyzes their narratives and the aesthetics underlying them to offer a richer understanding of how Civil War writing chronicled the events of the conflict as they unfolded and then served to frame the memory of the war afterward. Elegantly interweaving military and literary history, Cushman uses some of the war's most famous writers and their works to explore the profound ways in which our nation's great conflict not only changed the lives of its combatants and chroniclers but also fundamentally transformed American letters.