A Companion to Mark Twain E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1472

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.

• One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years
• Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature
• Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience
• A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Title page

Notes on Contributors

Note on Referencing

Mark Twain’s Major Works

Mark Twain’s Short Works

Acknowledgments

PART I: The Cultural Context

1 Mark Twain and Nation

Nation, Genealogy, and Race

Nation and Modernization

Nationality, Femininity, and Imperialism

National Author

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

2 Mark Twain and Human Nature

Twain’s Developing Ideas about Human Nature

Twain as Humorist, Moralist, and Sage

Twain as Determinist

Twain’s Final Thoughts on the Damned Human Race

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

3 Mark Twain and America’s Christian Mission Abroad

The American Christian

The US as an Imperial Power

Mark Twain and Missionaries

Mark Twain and the Racial Other

Mark Twain’s Spatial Aesthetic

Mark Twain and America’s Christian Mission Abroad

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Collections Cited

4 Mark Twain and Whiteness

White of a Different Color

Visible Whiteness

Invisible Blackness

White Hegemony

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

5 Mark Twain and Gender

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

6 Twain and Modernity

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

7 Mark Twain and Politics

Mark Twain, Political Reporter

Party Politics

Mark Twain, Mugwump

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

8 “The State, it is I”: Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART II: Mark Twain and Others

9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists

The Language of Southern Humor

Social Philology in

Roughing It

and

A Connecticut Yankee

The Innocents Abroad

and

A Tramp Abroad

: Language and National Difference

Race and Class:

Pudd’nhead Wilson

and

Life on the Mississippi

Conclusion: Sut and Huck

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

10 The “American Dickens”: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens

Dickens in America

Old and New Worlds in

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

The “American Dickens”:

The Gilded Age

and

Huckleberry Finn

Conclusion: The “American Dickens” and Beyond

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

12 The Twain–Cable Combination

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism

Twain, Realism, and the Literary Context

The Case of

Huckleberry Finn

Realist Writing, Literature, and the Marketplace

The Limits of Realism

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART III: Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing

14 “I don’t know A from B”: Mark Twain and Orality

Definitions

Roots and Reading

Oral Gentility/Literate Vernacular

Re-presented Orality

Stage/Presence

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing

The Emerging Professional

Twain and the Business of Writing

The Resisting Writer

The Consummate Professional

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines

Publicity

Pleasure vs. Pain: The Problems of Magazine Writing

The “mighty difficult work” of Magazines

Twain, Books, and Magazines

Prestige

Conclusion

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

17 Mark Twain and the Stage

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

18 Mark Twain on the Screen

Hollywood as an Ally

The Silent Film Era

The Coming of Sound

The Emergence of Television

Return to Big-Screen Productions

A New Golden Age of Television

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART IV: Mark Twain and Travel

19 Twain and the Mississippi

The Matter of the River

The Duplicity of the Mississippi

Maternal Water

Reconstructing the Mississippi

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing

The Popularity of Travel Writing

Conventions of Travel Writing

The Roving Correspondent

“A Brave Conception”:

The Innocents Abroad

“Variegated Vagabondizing”:

Roughing It

“The Spectacle”:

A Tramp Abroad

“A Standard Work”:

Life on the Mississippi

The “Power of Thought”:

Following the Equator

America’s Travel Writer

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART V: Mark Twain’s Fiction

23 Mark Twain’s Short Fiction

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

24

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

and

The Prince and the Pauper

as Juvenile Literature

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Prince and the Pauper

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

25 Plotting and Narrating “Huck”

Jackson’s Island and Jim

The Move Downriver toward Cairo

The Break (and Resumption) in Composition: The Feud

The Continued Journey and the King and the Duke

Colonel Sherburn

Tom Sawyer’s Return

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

26 Going to Tom’s Hell in

Huckleberry Finn

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

27 History, “Civilization,” and

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

“The Excess of Yankee Curiosity”: Twain with Beard

“The Joys of Cruelty”: Twain with Nietzsche

“The Economics of our Happiness”: Twain with Freud

Conclusion: The “Battle of the Sand Belt”

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

28 Mark Twain’s Dialects

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

29 Killing Half a Dog, Half a Novel: The Trouble with

The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

and

The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART VI: Mark Twain’s Humor

31 Mark Twain’s Visual Humor

“The Openly Dramatized Personality”

Comic Drawings

Deadpan Frills

Embedded Photographs

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor

A Year of Changes: 1867, Mark Twain, and American Humor

Mark Twain and his Contemporaries

Canonicity Then and Now

Literary Humor

Angles of Vision

Domestic Humor

Mark Twain and 1888

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Additional References

34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART VII: A Retrospective

35 The State of Mark Twain Studies

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

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A COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN

EDITED BY

PETER MESSENT

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Notes on Contributors

Lawrence I. Berkove is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and President-elect of the Mark Twain Circle of America. He has published widely in his field of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, but Twain has been a special and ongoing interest of his from the beginning. His Modern Library edition of The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain came out in 2004. Berkove is also a leading authority on the literature of the Sagebrush School of late nineteenth-century Nevada, whose members had a formative influence on Twain. He is now working on a book-length study of Twain’s religion and its influence on his literature.

John Bird is Professor of English at Winthrop University. He has published articles on Mark Twain and is the editor of the Mark Twain Circle of America’s annual publication, The Mark Twain Annual. He is completing a book on Mark Twain and metaphor.

Louis J. Budd, James B. Duke Professor (Emeritus) of English at Duke University, has concentrated on American realism and naturalism, especially as seen in the novels of William Dean Howells. He has also published steadily on the career of Mark Twain, most often as manifested in his literary reputation, popular images, and citizenship.

Martin T. Buinicki is an Assistant Professor of English at Valparaiso University, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and the history of the book and authorship. His work has appeared in American Literary History, American Literary Realism, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His book Negotiating Copyright: Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming from Routledge.

Gregg Camfield is Professor of English at the University of the Pacific. He is the author of Sentimental Twain: Mark Twain in the Maze of Moral Philosophy (1994), (1997), and (2003), as well as numerous articles on American literature and culture.