| Description |
xviii, 258 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250) and index. |
| Contents |
Mark Twain as an American icon / Louis J. Budd -- The innocent at large: Mark Twain's travel writing / Forrest G. Robinson -- Mark Twain and women / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Mark Twain's Civil War: humor's reconstructive writing / Neil Schmitz -- Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and classic American literature / Myra Jehlen -- Black critics and Mark Twain / David Lionel Smith -- Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, race, and blackface / Eric Lott -- Speech |
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acts and social action: Mark Twain and the politics of literary performance / Evan Carton -- How the boss played the game: Twain's critique of imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / John Carlos Rowe -- Mark Twain's travels in the racial occult: Following the equator and the Dream tales / Susan Gillman -- Mark Twain's theology: the gods of a brevet Presbyterian / Stanley Brodwin. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Robinson, Forrest G. (Forrest Glen), 1940-
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| ISBN |
052144036X hardback |
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0521445930 paperback |
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