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Searching for Jim
Slavery in Sam Clemens's World
Häftad, 2003
352 kr
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Carefully reconstructed from letters, newspaper articles, sermons, speeches, books, and court records, Searching for Jim offers a new perspective on Sam Clemens's writings, especially regarding his use of race in the portrayal of individual characters, their attitudes, and worldviews. This …
Mark Twain and Metaphor
Av John Bird
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Metaphor theory, observes John Bird, is like Mark Twain: both seem simple upon first introduction. Now, in the most complete study to date of Twain's use of figurative language, a veteran Twain scholar tackles the core of his writing and explores it with theoretical approaches that have rarely been …
Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Before Mark Twain became a national celebrity with his best-selling The Innocents Abroad, he was just another struggling writer perfecting his craft—but already “playin’ hell” with the world. In the first book in more than fifty years to examine the initial phase of Samuel Clemens’s writing career, …
Mark Twain and the American West
Häftad, 2011
253 kr
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In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that eventually won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of the western region in the development …
Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
Av Joseph Csicsila, Joseph Csicsila m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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One hundred years after its writing, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger remains a literary enigma. Mark Twain’s last significant full-length work of fiction and one of his most deeply philosophical works on the nature of truth and the human condition, it was unfinished at his death and has gained a …
Mark Twain in Japan
The Cultural Reception of an American Icon
Häftad, 2011
274 kr
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Best known for his sharp wit and his portrayals of life along the banks of the Mississippi River, Mark Twain is indeed an American icon, and many scholars have examined how he and his work are perceived in the United States. In Mark Twain in Japan, however, Tsuyoshi Ishihara explores how Twain’s …
Gender Play in Mark Twain
Cross-Dressing and Transgression
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain’s novel but hardly out of character—for the author, that is. Twain “troubled gender” in much of his otherwise traditional fiction, depicting children whose sexual identities are switched at birth, tomboys, same-sex married …
Mark Twain and Medicine
"Any Mummery Will Cure"
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Mark Twain has always been America's spokesman, and his comments on a wide range of topics continue to be accurate, valid, and frequently amusing. His opinions on the medical field are no exception. While Twain's works, including his popular novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are rich in …
Mark Twain and Human Nature
Av Tom Quirk
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment—and to …
Cosmopolitan Twain
Av Amy M. Ryan, Ann M. Ryan m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Cosmopolitan Twain takes seriously Mark Twain’s life as a citizen of urban landscapes: from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna to the suburban utopia of Hartford. Traditional readings of Mark Twain orient his life and work by distinctly rural markers such as the Mississippi …
Constructing Mark Twain
New Directions in Scholarship
Av Laura E. Skandera Trombley, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled …
Rafts and Other Rivercraft
in Huckleberry Finn
Inbunden, 2018
431 kr
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The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is …
Life of Mark Twain
The Early Years, 1835-1871
Inbunden, 2018
434 kr
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This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens’s life, because the …
Mark Twain in Paradise
His Voyages to Bermuda
Häftad, 2018
283 kr
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For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in the world, Bermuda offered the writer a refuge from his harried and sometimes sad …
Life of Mark Twain
Volume 3: The Final Years, 1891-1910
Inbunden, 2022
434 kr
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The last installment of Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Clemens between his family’s extended trip to Europe in 1891 and his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens was one of the most famous people in the world. He also grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the …
Life of Mark Twain 3 Volume Set
Inbunden, 2022
869 kr
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This three-volume, hardcover set of Gary Scharnhorst's biography of Samuel Clemens includes The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871; The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871-1891; and The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891-1910.
Gravity
Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens
Inbunden, 2023
507 kr
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In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice--as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and so much more. The frail woman often …
There is No Humor in Heaven
Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism
Inbunden, 2025
549 kr
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More than a century after his death in 1910, Mark Twain remains a lightning rod for controversy. Especially in matters of race, class, and gender, the volatile views this iconic American author expressed in classics like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn continue to provoke heated debate among …
Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism
Häftad, 2025
261 kr
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A century after Samuel Clemens’s death, Mark Twain thrives. One way fans still celebrate the first true American writer and his work is by visiting any number of Mark Twain destinations. They believe they can learn something unique by visiting the places where he lived. Mark Twain’s Homes and …
Ghosts of Mark Twain
A Study of Manhood, Race, and the Gothic Imagination
Av Ann M Ryan
Inbunden, 2025
549 kr
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In his autobiography, Mark Twain confesses that “from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race—never quite sane in the night.” Of all the memories and fears that disturbed Twain’s peace of mind, none are more intractable than those associated with White fathers, Black men, the histories …
Mark Twain's 1884
A Pivotal Year in the Life
Av John Bird
Inbunden, 2026
507 kr
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Many biographies of Mark Twain cover his entire life, while others focus on specific periods, especially his later years. In this innovative new work, John Bird takes an entirely different approach. Mark Twain’s 1884: A Pivotal Year in the Life is a “micro-biography” that homes in on a single—and …
Mark Twain
Social Philosopher
Häftad, 2001
303 kr
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A comprehensive study of Mark Twain's social and political attitudes. The author traces the growth of Twain's political and social convictions and thus shows his relationship to the age in which he lived. The work is based on research in the newspapers of the day, personal letters, and other …
Jester and the Sages
Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx
Av Forrest Robinson, Gabriel Brahm m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
372 kr
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The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel …
Hatching Ruin
Or Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy
Häftad, 2011
253 kr
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In “Hatching Ruin,” Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens’s business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyzes how these relationships affected Clemens as a person and an artist, most notably in A Connecticut Yankee in …
Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics
Letters to the Editor
Inbunden, 2014
371 kr
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Whether he was taking us along for a journey down the Mississippi with a couple of runaways or delivering speeches on the importance of careful lying, Mark Twain had an innate ability to captivate readers and listeners alike with his trademark humor and sarcasm. Twain never lacked for material, …
Mark Twain & France
The Making of a New American Identity
Av Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn
Inbunden, 2017
549 kr
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While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s relationship with France as hostile, Harrington and Jenn see Twain’s use of the French as a foil to help construct his identity as “the representative American.” Examining new materials that detail his Montmatre study, the carte de visite album, …
Life of Mark Twain
The Middle Years, 1871–1891
Inbunden, 2019
434 kr
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Following on the heels of the first volume, The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871–1891, is the second of three volumes in this critically acclaimed autobiography. This volume chronicles events in Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life between his departure with his family from Buffalo for Elmira …
