Stephen Railton

eBook, PDF

Mark Twain (eBook, PDF)

A Short Introduction

Beschreibung

This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson. * * Introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson. * 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. * Analyses the significance of Twain's books for American culture and identity. * 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'.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 1.09MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470779927
• Artikelnr.: 38211274

Rezensionen

"A concise, yet amazingly rich, informative,well-researched, and readable introduction to Mark Twain's majorworks, from Innocents Abroad to Pudd'nhead Wilson. Inhis fresh and helpful interpretations Stephen Railton, developer ofthe popular website 'Mark Twain in His Times,' providesrelevant biographical and historical backgrounds and incorporates abroad spectrum of criticism." Werner Sollors, HarvardUniversity

"Stephen Railton offers a highly readable and crisply argueddiscussion of Samuel Clemens' literary persona Mark Twain as publicperformance and of the relationship Clemens nurtured and continuesto nurture with his readers...A most useful primer in the socialand aesthetic impact of Mark Twain's art." Michael J. Kiskis,Elmira College

"Even though Mark Twain (as Samuel Clemens) did die, Railton'sbook by its very existence proves that Mark Twain still lives, inhis works, the legacy of his life, nearly ninety-four years afterhis physical demise. Mark Twain is dead. Long live Mark Twain!"Mark Twain Forum