Trained as a printer when still a boy, and thrilled throughout his life by the automation of printing and the headlong expansion of American publishing, Mark Twain wrote about the consequences of this revolution for culture and for personal identity. Printer's Devil is the first book to explore these themes in some of Mark Twain's best-known literary works, and in his most daring speculations--on American society, the modern condition, and the nature of the self. Playfully and anxiously, Mark Twain often thought about typeset words and published images as powerful forces--for political...
Trained as a printer when still a boy, and thrilled throughout his life by the automation of printing and the headlong expansion of American publishin...
Critical perspective on the writings of Mark Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality and as a myth. The author shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from the very beginning to the end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation from every social, psychological, and artistic limit.
Critical perspective on the writings of Mark Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality and as a myth. The author shows that many of Twain...
