UID:
almahu_9949501764702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 337 pages).
ISBN:
9781000814200
,
1000814203
,
9781003256373
,
1003256376
,
9781000814071
,
1000814076
Serie:
Routledge research in American literature and culture
Inhalt:
"Who was Mark Twain? Was he the genial author of two beloved boys books, the white-haired and white-suited avuncular humorist, the realistic novelist, the exposer of shams, the author repressed by bourgeois values, or the social satirist whose later writings embody an increasingly dark view? In light of those and other conceptions, the question we need to ask is not who he was but how did we get so many Mark Twains? The Mercurial Mark Twains(s): Reception History and Iconic Authorship provides answers to that question by examining the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by his audiences. Drawing on archival records of responses from common readers, reviewer reactions, analyses by Twain scholars and critics, and film and television adaptations, this study provides the first wide-ranging, fine-grained historical analysis of Twain's reception in both the public and private spheres, from the 1860s until the end of the twentieth century"--
Anmerkung:
Twain's early reception : the humorist and more -- Notorious celebrity : from Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn -- Vintage variations and new Mark Twains, 1889-1899 -- The final decade : from celebrity polemicist to mercurial icon -- Twain's early afterlives, 1910-1939 -- Old Twains, new Twains, and fresh controversies : race, myth, adaptations, and the Cold War, 1940-1959 -- Texts, politics, and hypercanonization : corpus, canon, and significances in the 1960s and 1970s -- Ever-changing marks : shaping Twain by century's end.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Machor, James L. Mercurial Mark Twain(s) New York : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032188157
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Biographies.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003256373
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003256373
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