| Description |
xii, 337 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index. |
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"Works by Mark Twain": pages 312-314. |
| Contents |
Career, life, and influence. On Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen ; Biography of Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen ; The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss for The Paris review -- Critical contexts. Mark Twain and his times / Stephen Railton ; Mark Twain's critical reception / Alan Gribben ; "Pluck enough to lynch a man": Mark Twain and manhood / Hilton Obenzinger ; Kindred rivals: Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Critical readings. Mark Twain as a travel writer / Larzer Ziff ; The adventures of Tom Sawyer: a nightmare vision of American boyhood / Cynthia Griffin Wolff ; The realism of Huckleberry Finn / Tom Quirk ; "Huckleberry fun" / Everett Carter ; Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith ; Connecticut Yankee: Twain's other masterpiece / Lawrence I. Berkove ; Mark Twain as a science-fiction writer / David Ketterer ; Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. Kiskis. |
| Summary |
"The essays in this volume offer a cross section of provocative interpretations of Mark Twain's writings ..."-About this volume. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Rasmussen, R. Kent.
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| ISBN |
9781587656897 (alkaline paper) |
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1587656892 (alkaline paper) |
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