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Mark Twain's Audience - A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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Mark Twain's Audience - A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since
1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer
to the reader. This study of Twain's readership and lecture
audiences makes use of statistics, literary biography,
twentieth-century newspapers, memoirs, diaries, travel journals,
letters, literature, interviews, and reading circle reports. The
book allows the audience of Mark Twain to speak for themselves in
defining their relationship to his work. Twain collected letters
from his readers but there are also many other sources of which
critics should be aware. The voices of these readers present their
views, their likes-and sometimes dislikes, their emotional
reactions and identification, and their deep attachment and love
for Twain's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities.
Bringing together contemporary reactions to Twain and his works and
those of later audiences, this book paints a portrait of the
American people and of American society and culture. While the book
is about Mark Twain, or Samuel Clemens, it presents a larger
cultural study of twentieth-century America and the early years of
the twentieth century. The book includes Twain's international
audience but makes its majorly scholarly contribution in the
analysis of Twain's audience in America. It analyzes the people and
their values, their reading habits and cultural views, their
everyday experiences in the face of the drastic changes of the
emerging nation coping with cataclysmic events, such as the
Industrial Revolution and the consequences of the Civil War. This
book serves as a model for using the audience of a prominent writer
to analyze American history, American culture, and the American
psyche. This book examines a historical time and an emerging
national consciousness that defined the American identity after the
Civil War.
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