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Mark Twain and Male Friendship - The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships (Paperback)
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Mark Twain and Male Friendship - The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships (Paperback)
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Biographies of America's greatest humorist abound, but none have
charted the overall influence of the key male friendships that
profoundly informed his life and work. Combining biography,
literary history, and gender studies, Mark Twain and Male
Friendship presents a welcome new perspective as it examines three
vastly different friendships and the stamp they left on Samuel
Clemens's life. With accessible prose informed by impressive
research, the study provides an illuminating history of the
friendships it explores, and the personal and cultural dynamic of
the relationships. In the case of Twain and his pastor, Joseph
Twichell, emphasis is put on the latter's role as mentor and
spiritual advisor and on Twain's own waning sense of religious
belonging. Messent then shifts gears to consider Twain's friendship
with fellow author and collaborator William Dean Howells.
Fascinating in its own right, this relationship also serves as a
prism through which to view the literary marketplace of
nineteenth-century America. A third, seemingly unlikely friendship
between Twain and Standard Oil executive H.H. Rogers focuses on
Twain's attitude toward business and shows how Rogers and his wife
served as a surrogate family for the novelist after the death of
his own wife. As he charts these relationships, Messent uses
existing work on male friendship, gender roles, and cultural change
as a framework in which to situate altered conceptions of
masculinity and of men's roles, not just in marriage but in the
larger social networks of their time. In sum, Mark Twain and Male
Friendship i s not only a valuable new resource on the great
novelist but also a lively cultural history of male friendship in
nineteenth-century America.
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