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Mark Twain Stephen Railton

Mark Twain By Stephen Railton

Mark Twain by Stephen Railton

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Introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", "Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson". This book investigates the tension between the real-life person, Samuel Clemens, and the fictional person, Mark Twain. It analyzes the significance of Twain's books for American culture.

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Mark Twain: A Short Introduction by Stephen Railton

This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", "Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson". This book: investigates the tension between the real-life person, Samuel Clemens, and the fictional person, Mark Twain; provides an original reading of Twain's obsession with performance and popularity; analyzes the significance of Twain's books for American culture and identity; and, is illustrated with images from first editions of Twain's works. A short appendix directs readers to the author's award-winning website on 'Mark Twain in his Times'.

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"A concise, yet amazingly rich, informative, well-researched, and readable introduction to Mark Twain's major works, from Innocents Abroad to Pudd'nhead Wilson. In his fresh and helpful interpretations Stephen Railton, developer of the popular website 'Mark Twain in His Times,' provides relevant biographical and historical backgrounds and incorporates a broad spectrum of criticism." Werner Sollors, Harvard University "Stephen Railton offers a highly readable and crisply argued discussion of Samuel Clemens' literary persona Mark Twain as public performance and of the relationship Clemens nurtured and continues to nurture with his readers...A most useful primer in the social and aesthetic impact of Mark Twain's art." Michael J. Kiskis, Elmira College "Even though Mark Twain (as Samuel Clemens) did die, Railton's book by its very existence proves that Mark Twain still lives, in his works, the legacy of his life, nearly ninety-four years after his physical demise. Mark Twain is dead. Long live Mark Twain!" Mark Twain Forum

About Stephen Railton

Stephen Railton is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous books include Fenimore Cooper: A Study of his Imagination (1978) and Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance (1991). He is the creator of two major websites on Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture and Mark Twain in His Times.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.Preface.1. Going East: Innocents Abroad.2. Going West: Roughing It.3. Going Home: Tom Sawyer.4. Running Away: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.5. Lost in Time: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour.6. Looking for Refuge - Pudd'nhead Wilson and "Hadleyburg".Appendix: Mark Twain in His Times: An Electronic Archive.Notes.Index.

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NLS9780631234746
9780631234746
0631234748
Mark Twain: A Short Introduction by Stephen Railton
Stephen Railton
Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2003-11-01
144
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