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One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special
position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also
as a preeminent portrayer of youth. His famous writings about
children and youthful themes are central to both his work and his
popularity. The distinguished contributors to Mark Twain and Youth
make Twain even more accessible to modern readers by fully
exploring youth themes in both his life and his extensive writings.
The volume's twenty-six original essays offer new perspectives on
such important subjects as Twain's boyhood; his relationships with
his siblings and his own children; his attitudes toward aging,
gender roles, and slavery; the marketing, reception, teaching, and
adaptation of his works; and youth themes in his individual
novels--Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Joan of
Arc. The book also includes a revealing foreword by actor Hal
Holbrook, who has performed longer as "Mark Twain" than Samuel
Clemens himself did. The book includes contributions by: Lawrence
Berkove, John Bird, Jocelyn A. Chadwick, Joseph Csicsila, Hugh H.
Davis, Mark Dawidziak, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, James Golden, Alan
Gribben, Benjamin Griffin, Ronald Jenn, Holger Kersten, Andrew
Levy, Cindy Lovell, Karen Lystra, Debra Ann MacComb, Peter Messent,
Linda A. Morris, K. Patrick Ober, John R. Pascal, Lucy E. Rollin,
Barbara Schmidt, David E. E. Sloane, Henry Sweets, Wendelinus
Wurth.
One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special
position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also
as a preeminent portrayer of youth. His famous writings about
children and youthful themes are central to both his work and his
popularity. The distinguished contributors to Mark Twain and Youth
make Twain even more accessible to modern readers by fully
exploring youth themes in both his life and his extensive writings.
The volume's twenty-six original essays offer new perspectives on
such important subjects as Twain's boyhood; his relationships with
his siblings and his own children; his attitudes toward aging,
gender roles, and slavery; the marketing, reception, teaching, and
adaptation of his works; and youth themes in his individual
novels--Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Joan of
Arc. The book also includes a revealing foreword by actor Hal
Holbrook, who has performed longer as "Mark Twain" than Samuel
Clemens himself did. The book includes contributions by: Lawrence
Berkove, John Bird, Jocelyn A. Chadwick, Joseph Csicsila, Hugh H.
Davis, Mark Dawidziak, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, James Golden, Alan
Gribben, Benjamin Griffin, Ronald Jenn, Holger Kersten, Andrew
Levy, Cindy Lovell, Karen Lystra, Debra Ann MacComb, Peter Messent,
Linda A. Morris, K. Patrick Ober, John R. Pascal, Lucy E. Rollin,
Barbara Schmidt, David E. E. Sloane, Henry Sweets, Wendelinus
Wurth.
Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for
granted, but nonetheless were—as we are today—both attracted to
and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep
history of such ambivalence, examining technology’s influence on
Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of
literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations
of technology. Offering a counterbalance to the abundance of
studies on literature and science in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Britain, this volume’s focus encompasses
approaches to literary history that help us understand technologies
like the steam engine and the telegraph along with representations
of technology in literature such as the “political machine.”
Contributors ultimately show how literature across genres provided
important sites for Enlightenment readers to recognize themselves
as “chimeras”—“hybrids of machine and organism”—and to
explore the modern self as “a creature of social reality as well
as a creature of fiction.”
Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for
granted, but nonetheless were—as we are today—both attracted to
and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep
history of such ambivalence, examining technology’s influence on
Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of
literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations
of technology. Offering a counterbalance to the abundance of
studies on literature and science in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Britain, this volume’s focus encompasses
approaches to literary history that help us understand technologies
like the steam engine and the telegraph along with representations
of technology in literature such as the “political machine.”
Contributors ultimately show how literature across genres provided
important sites for Enlightenment readers to recognize themselves
as “chimeras”—“hybrids of machine and organism”—and to
explore the modern self as “a creature of social reality as well
as a creature of fiction.”
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