This collection seeks to place "Pudd'nhead Wilson"--a neglected,
textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's--in the context of
contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors'
introduction argues the virtues of using "Pudd'nhead Wilson" as a
teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently
occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of
history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally
of race, class, and gender.
In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in
spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, and dead ends in the text
itself. Such wrinkles and gaps, the authors find, are the symptoms
of an inconclusive, even evasive, but culturally illuminating
struggle to confront and resolve difficult questions bearing on
race and sex. Such fresh, intellectually enriching perspectives on
the novel arise directly from the broad-based interdisciplinary
foundations provided by the participating scholars. Drawing on a
wide variety of critical methodologies, the essays place the novel
in ways that illuminate the world in which it was produced and that
further promise to stimulate further study.
"Contributors." Michael Cowan, James M. Cox, Susan Gillman, Myra
Jehlen, Wilson Carey McWilliams, George E. Marcus, Carolyn Porter,
Forrest Robinson, Michael Rogin, John Carlos Rowe, John Schaar,
Eric Sundquist
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
July 1990 |
| First published: |
July 1990 |
| Editors: |
Susan Gillman
• Forrest G. Robinson
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 149 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
280 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-1046-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-8223-1046-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780822310464 |
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