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'Littery Man' - Mark Twain and Modern Authorship (Hardcover, New)
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'Littery Man' - Mark Twain and Modern Authorship (Hardcover, New)
Series: Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture
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A self-styled "American vandal" who pursued literary celebrity with
"a mercenary eye" even as genteel America proclaimed him the
American Rabelais, Samuel Clemens, as Mark Twain, straddled the
conflicts between culture and commerce that characterized the era
he named the Gilded Age. In "Littery Man", Richard Lowry examines
how Twain used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an
"autobiography of authorship", a narrative of his own claims to
literary authority at that moment when the American Writer emerged
as a profession. Drawing on a wide range of cultural genres -
popular boys' fiction, childrearing manuals, travel narratives,
autobiography, and criticism and fiction of the period - Lowry
reconstructs how Twain participated in remaking the "literary" into
a powerful social category of representation. He shows how, as one
of our culture's first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens
transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to
know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of
modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will
appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of
nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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