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Mark Twain & Company - Six Literary Relations (Hardcover, New)
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Mark Twain & Company - Six Literary Relations (Hardcover, New)
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In this comparison of Mark Twain with six of his literary
contemporaries, Leland Krauth looks anew at the writer's
multifaceted creativity. Twain, a highly lettered man immersed in
the literary culture of his time, viewed himself as working within
a community of writers. He likened himself to a guild member whose
work was the crafted product of a common trade--and sometimes made
with borrowed materials. Yet there have been few studies of Twain
in relation to his fellow guild members. In Mark Twain &
Company, Krauth examines some creative "sparks and smolderings"
ignited by Twain's contact with certain writers, all of whom were
published, read, and criticized on both sides of the Atlantic: the
Americans Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, and Harriet Beecher
Stowe and the British writers Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis
Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. Each chapter explores the nature of
Twain's personal relationship with a writer as well as the literary
themes and modes they shared. Krauth looks at the sentimentality of
Harte and Twain and its influence on their protest fiction; the
humor and social criticism of Twain and Howells; the use of the
Gothic by Twain and Stowe to explore racial issues; the role of
Victorian Sage assumed by Arnold and Twain to critique
civilization; the exploitation of adventure fiction by Twain and
Stevenson to reveal conceptions of masculinity; and the use of the
picaresque in Kipling and Twain to support or subvert imperialism.
Mark Twain & Company casts new light on some of the most
enduring writers in English. At the same time it refreshes the
debate over the transatlantic nature of Victorianism with new
insights about nineteenth-century morality, conventionality, race,
corporeality, imperialism, manhood, and individual identity.
General
Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2003 |
First published: |
October 2003 |
Authors: |
Leland Krauth
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Dimensions: |
240 x 160 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
328 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-2540-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8203-2540-6 |
Barcode: |
9780820325408 |
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