Mark Twain / editor, R. Kent Rasmussen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Critical insightsPublication details: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.Description: xii, 337 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781587656897 (alk. paper)
  • 1587656892 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 1338 .M2727 2011
Contents:
On Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen -- Biography of Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen -- The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss for The Paris review -- 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 -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-316) and index.

"Works by Mark Twain": p. 312-314.

On Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen -- Biography of Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen -- The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss for The Paris review -- 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 -- 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.

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