A comprehensive study of Mark Twain's social and political attitudes. The author traces the growth of Twain's political and social convictions and thus shows his relationship to the age in which he lived. The work is based on research in the newspapers of the day, personal letters, and other little-known material, as well as intensive analysis of the most relevant works by Twain. The material is presented in a forthright style that moves at a springy pace.
A comprehensive study of Mark Twain's social and political attitudes. The author traces the growth of Twain's political and social convictions and thu...
In "Hatching Ruin, " Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens s business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyzes how these relationships affected Clemens as a person and an artist, most notably in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court. "
The 1880s were a time when Samuel Clemens was more businessman than author. Clemens wanted to be rich. From an early age, he had dreamed of wealth. Suspicious of his previous publisher, Clemens started a publishing company and placed Charles L. Webster, who was married to...
In "Hatching Ruin, " Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens s business relationships with Charles L. Webster and Jame...
In "Mark Twain and the American West," Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that eventually won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of the western region in the development of a persona that not only helped redefine American manhood and literary celebrity in the late nineteenth century, but also produced some of the most complex and challenging writings in the American canon.
Coulombe sheds new light on previously underappreciated components of Twain s distinctly...
In "Mark Twain and the American West," Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American We...
Best known for his sharp wit and his portrayals of life along the banks of the Mississippi River, Mark Twain is indeed an American icon, and many scholars have examined how he and his work are perceived in the United States. In Mark Twain in Japan, however, Tsuyoshi Ishihara explores how Twain's uniquely American work is viewed in a completely different culture.Mark Twain in Japan addresses three principal areas. First, the author considers Japanese translations of Twain's books, which have been overlooked by scholars but which have had a significant impact on the...
Best known for his sharp wit and his portrayals of life along the banks of the Mississippi River, Mark Twain is indeed an American icon, and ma...
"Sagebrush"" School" is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century its most illustrious representative being Mark Twain. Yet most of their work was never republished from the periodicals in which it first appeared and today remains largely unknown to many scholars and aficionados of Western literature.
Lawrence I. Berkove, acknowledged as the leading authority on this body of literature, has assembled an exceptional collection that rescues the lively works of the Sagebrush School from the dusty archives in...
"Sagebrush"" School" is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century...
"Sagebrush"" School" is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century its most illustrious representative being Mark Twain. Yet most of their work was never republished from the periodicals in which it first appeared and today remains largely unknown to many scholars and aficionados of Western literature.
Lawrence I. Berkove, acknowledged as the leading authority on this body of literature, has assembled an exceptional collection that rescues the lively works of the Sagebrush School from the dusty archives in...
"Sagebrush"" School" is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century...
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment--and to understand why.
Now one of America's preeminent Twain scholars takes a closer look at this icon's abiding interest in his fellow creatures. In seeking to account for how Twain might have reasonably believed the things he said he believed, Tom Quirk has interwoven the author's inner life...
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with th...