| Description |
xiv, 464 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Bloom's classic critical views |
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Bloom's classic critical views.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography -- Personal -- Unsigned "Virginia at midnight" (1863) -- Unsigned "What does it mean?" (1863) -- Unsigned "Unhealthy" (1863) -- Mark Twain (1863) -- Unsigned "Worse and worse" (1863) -- Unsigned (1863) -- Artemus Ward (1864) -- Unsigned (1864) -- Various correspondents (1864) -- Unsigned editorials (1864) -- Henry Clapp, Jr. (1865) -- Unsigned (1866) -- Ambrose Bierce (1870) -- Edward Peron Hingston (1870) -- Attributed to Edward Peron Hingston (1873) -- Ambrose Bierce "Letter from England" (1872) -- Anthony Trollope (1873) -- Ambrose Bierce (1873-74) -- Bret Harte (1876-77) -- Unsigned (1877) -- Albert Bigelow Paine "The Whittier birthday speech" (1877) -- Ambrose Bierce "Comment on a famous faux pas" (1878) -- Joel Chandler Harris (1881) -- Ambrose Bierce (1886) -- Ambrose Bierce "Prattle" (1888) -- Walt Whitman (1889) -- Horace Traubel (1889) -- William James (1892-93) -- Dan DeQuille (1893) "Reporting with Mark Twain" -- Ambrose Bierce (1905-06) -- William James (1907) -- George Bernard Shaw "Shaw meets Twain and explains him" (1907) -- Ferris Greenslet (1908) -- Jerome K. Jerome "Jerome's first meeting with him" (1910) -- E.V. Lucas "E.V. Lucas and Twain at a 'Punch dinner'" (1910) -- William Dean Howells (1910) -- Joaquin Miller (1912) -- Ambrose Bierce (1913) -- C.C. Goodwin "Samuel L. Clemens: 'Mark Twain'" (1913) -- Henry W. Fisher (1922) -- General -- Bret Harte "From California" (1866) -- Charles Henry Webb (1867) -- Ellen Tucker Emerson (1873) -- Henry James (1875) -- Robert Underwood Johnson "A new book by Mark Twain" (1877) -- Joel Chandler Harris (1882) -- William Dean Howells "Mark Twain" (1882) -- Thomas Hardy (1883) -- William Dean Howells "The editor's study" (1887) -- Oscar Wilde "The child-philosopher" (1887) -- Andrew Lang "On the art of Mark Twain" (1891) -- William Montgomery Clemens (1894) -- H.H. Boyesen "The plague of jocularity" (1895) -- Theodore Dreiser "The literary shower" (1896) -- William Dean Howells (1897) -- Brander Matthews (1899) -- Barrett Wendell (1900) -- Harry Thurston Peck "As to Mark Twain" (1901) -- Ambrose Bierce "Wit and humor" (1903) -- Barrett Wendell with Chester Noyes Greenough (1904) -- Harry Thurston Peck "Mark Twain at ebb tide" (1904) -- Hammond Lamont "Mark Twain at seventy" (1905) -- William Lyon Phelps "Mark Twain" (1907) -- Sigmund Freud "Contribution to a questionnaire on reading" (1907) -- Archibald Henderson "Mark Twain" (1909) -- H.L. Mencken "Novels and other books, mostly bad" (1909) -- Unsigned (1910) -- Arnold Bennett "Arnold Bennett considers Twain was a divine amateur" (1910) -- Various authors "Tributes to Mark Twain" (1910) -- George Ade "Mark Twain and the old time subscription book" (1910) -- Simeon Strunsky (1910) -- H.L. Mencken "Twain and Howells" (1911) -- William Dean Howells (1913) -- H.L. Mencken "The burden of humor" (1913) -- Sigmund Freud (1914) -- Fred Lewis Pattee (1915) -- H.L. Mencken (1917) -- Ring Lardner "Three stories a year are enough for a writer" (1917) -- H.L. Mencken "Si mutare potest aethiops pellum suam" (1917) -- H.L. Mencken "Mark Twain's Americanism" (1917) --Ezra Pound "Three views of H.L. Mencken" (1918) -- William Dean Howells (1918) -- Waldo Frank (1919) -- Van Wyck Brooks (1920). |
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Works -- The jumping frog of Calaveras county -- Mark Twain (1866) -- Unsigned "New publications / miscellaneous" (1867) -- Unsigned "The citizen's book table" (1867) -- Unsigned (1867) -- Dan DeQuille (1874) -- The innocents abroad -- Unsigned review int he Virginia City Territorial Enterprise (1869) -- William Dean Howells (1869) -- Reviewer writing as "Tom Folio" (1869) -- Bret Harte (1870) -- Ambrose Bierce "A joke on the Saturday Review" (1870) -- Mark Twain "An entertaining article" (1870) -- Henry Harland "Mark Twain" (1899) -- Mark Twain "Mark Twain's own account" (1907) -- William Dean Howells (1910) -- Arthur Bigelow Paine (1912) -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- William Dean Howells (1876) -- Moncure Daniel Conway (1876) -- Unsigned review in the Edinburgh Scotsman (1876) -- Unsigned review in the Athenaeum (1876) -- Richard F. Littledale (1876) -- Unsigned review in the London Times (1876) -- Unsigned review in the New York Times (1877) -- Will Clemens (1894) -- William Dean Howells (1910) -- Carl Van Doren (1921) -- The prince and the pauper -- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1881) -- Unsigned review (1881) -- Review attributed to Edward Purcell (1881) -- Joel Chandler Harris (1881) -- Unsigned review in Century Magazine (1882) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1887) -- Life on the Mississippi -- Unsigned review in the Chicago Tribune (1883) -- Lafcadio Hearn (1883) -- Unsigned review in the Athenaeum (1883) -- Robert Brown (1883) -- Unsigned review int he Arkansas Traveler (1883) -- Unsigned review in Graphic (1883) -- William Dean Howells (1910) -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Unsigned review "Mark Twain in a dilemma" (1884) -- Brander Matthews "Huckleberry Finn" (1885) -- Robert Bridges (1885) -- Franklin B. Sanborn "Mark Twain and Lord Lytton" (1885) -- Thomas Sergeant Perry "Open letters" (1885) -- Joel Chandler Harris "Huckleberry Finn and his critics" (1885) -- Joel Chandler Harris "Symposium on the historical novel" (1885) -- Mark Twain (1885) -- Sir Walter Besant "My favorite novelist and his best book" (1898) -- H.L. Mencken "Popularity index" (1910) -- Carl Van Doren (1921) -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court -- Mark Twain (1889) -- William Dean Howells (1890) -- Desmond O'Brien (1890) -- Unsigned review in Speaker (1890) -- Unsigned review in the Daily Telegraph (1890) -- Henry C. Vedder (1893) -- William Dean Howells "My favorite novelist and his best book" (1897) -- The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Mark Twain "Those extraordinary twins" (1894) -- William Livingston Alden (1894) -- Unsigned reviewin the Athenaeum (1895) -- Unsigned review in The Critic (1895) -- Martha McCulloch Williams "In re 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'" (1894) -- Chronology -- Index. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
9781604131345 (acid-free paper) |
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1604131349 (acid-free paper) |
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