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A Companion to Mark Twain


A Companion to Mark Twain


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9781405152198
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 592

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<p>This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.</p> <ul> <li>One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years</li> <li>Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature</li> <li>Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience</li> <li>A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors x</p> <p>Note on Referencing xvii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xix</p> <p><b>PART I The Cultural Context 1</b></p> <p>1 Mark Twain and Nation 3<br /><i>Randall Knoper</i></p> <p>2 Mark Twain and Human Nature 21<br /><i>Tom Quirk</i></p> <p>3 Mark Twain and America's Christian Mission Abroad 38<br /><i>Susan K. Harris</i></p> <p>4 Mark Twain and Whiteness 53<br /><i>Richard S. Lowry</i></p> <p>5 Mark Twain and Gender 66<br /><i>Peter Stoneley</i></p> <p>6 Twain and Modernity 78<br /><i>T. J. Lustig</i></p> <p>7 Mark Twain and Politics 94<br /><i>James S. Leonard</i></p> <p>8 "The State, it is I": Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists 109<br /><i>Scott Michaelsen</i></p> <p><b>PART II Mark Twain and Others 123</b></p> <p>9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists 125<br /><i>Gavin Jones</i></p> <p>10 The "American Dickens": Mark Twain and Charles Dickens 141<br /><i>Christopher Gair</i></p> <p>11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain 157<br /><i>Lawrence I. Berkove</i></p> <p>12 The Twain-Cable Combination 172<br /><i>Stephen Railton</i></p> <p>13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism 186<br /><i>Peter Messent</i></p> <p><b>PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing 209</b></p> <p>14 "I don't know A from B" Mark Twain and Orality 211<br /><i>Thomas D. Zlatic</i></p> <p>15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing 228<br /><i>Leland Krauth</i></p> <p>16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines 243<br /><i>Martin T. Buinicki</i></p> <p>17 Mark Twain and the Stage 259<br /><i>Shelley Fisher Fishkin</i></p> <p>18 Mark Twain on the Screen 274<br /><i>R. Kent Rasmussen and Mark Dawidziak</i></p> <p><b>PART IV Mark Twain and Travel 291</b></p> <p>19 Twain and the Mississippi 293<br /><i>Andrew Dix</i></p> <p>20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West 309<br /><i>Gary Scharnhorst</i></p> <p>21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe 324<br /><i>Holger Kersten</i></p> <p>22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing 338<br /><i>Jeffrey Alan Melton</i></p> <p><b>PART V Mark Twain' Fiction 355</b></p> <p>23 Mark Twain's Short Fiction 357<br /><i>Henry B. Wonham</i></p> <p>24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature 371<br /><i>Linda A. Morris</i></p> <p>25 Plotting and Narrating "Huck" 387<br /><i>Victor Doyno</i></p> <p>26 Going to Tom's Hell in Huckleberry Finn 401<br /><i>Hilton Obenzinger</i></p> <p>27 History, "Civilization," and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 416<br /><i>Sam Halliday</i></p> <p>28 Mark Twain's Dialects 431<br /><i>David Lionel Smith</i></p> <p>29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins 441<br /><i>John Bird</i></p> <p>30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain 449<br /><i>Forrest G. Robinson</i></p> <p><b>PART VI Mark Twain's Humor 467</b></p> <p>31 Mark Twain's Visual Humor 469<br /><i>Louis J. Budd</i></p> <p>32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor 485<br /><i>Cameron C. Nickels</i></p> <p>33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor 500<br /><i>Gregg Camfield</i></p> <p>34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit 513<br /><i>Bruce Michelson</i></p> <p><b>PART VII A Retrospective 531</b></p> <p>35 The State of Mark Twain Studies 533<br /><i>Alan Gribben</i></p> <p>Index 555</p>
"The editors have done an exemplary job in maintaining a very high level of scholarly excellence in almost all these contributions. On a vast range of subjects there is a plenitude here of scholarly research and insight, some of it at least exploring new ground …  and much of it proving illuminating and challenging." (<i>Notes and Queries</i>, June 2009) <p>"Highly recommended for the reference shelves of libraries collecting work on American literature and culture." (<i>Reference Reviews</i>)<!--end--></p>
<p><b>Peter Messent</b> is Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature at Nottingham University. He is the author of <i>The Crime Fiction Handbook</i> (2012), the prize-winning <i>Mark Twain and Male Friendship </i>(2009), <i>The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study</i> (2001), <i>Mark Twain</i> (1997), <i>Ernest Hemingway</i> (1992), and <i>New Readings of the American Novel: Narrative Theory and its Application</i> (1990).</p> <p><b>Louis J. Budd</b> died after this book was first published, in 2011. He was James B. Duke Professor (Emeritus) of American Literature at Duke University, where he taught American Literature from 1981 to 1991. He was also the author of <i>Mark Twain: Social Philosopher</i> (reissued 2001) and <i>Our Mark Twain: The Making of his Public Personality</i> (1983) and the editor of <i>Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews</i> (1999). He served as founding president of the Mark Twain Circle of America</p>
Mark Twain is one of the best-known figures of American literature. This broad-ranging <i>companion</i> brings together many of the most respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. It places especial emphasis on the ways in which the author's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience. <p>The book approaches Twain through six subject headings: his cultural and historical context; his relationships with other writers; his role in the larger professional world of publishing and performing; studies of his travel writing; studies of his fictional works; and readings of his role as a humorist. A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism. This organisation provides a strong basis for the exploration and re-evaluation of Twain's work and cultural importance.</p>
"... Highly recommended for the reference shelves of libraries collecting work on American literature and culture."<br /> <i>Reference Reviews</i> <!--end-->

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