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Mark Twain
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Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization by Hsuan L. HsuISBN: 9781479880416
Publication Date: 2015-02-20
In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu examines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relations with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain's early writings about Chinese immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain's ideas about race were not limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups.
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Mark Twain and Human Nature by Tom QuirkISBN: 9780826217585
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
In this book, one of America's preeminent Twain scholars takes a closer look at this icon's abiding interest in his fellow creatures. In seeking to account for how Twain might have reasonably believed the things he said he believed, Tom Quirk has interwoven the author's inner life with his writings to produce a meditation on how Twain's understanding of human nature evolved and deepened, and to show that this was one of the central preoccupations of his life.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain by Peter B. MessentISBN: 9780521854450
Publication Date: 2007-03-08
This clear and incisive Introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particular attention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins his prose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of the recent critical reception of Twain's writing.
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Mark Twain: A Life by Ron PowersISBN: 9780743249010
Publication Date: 2006-06-05
Ron Powers's tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain's voice, and as a great American story. Ron Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.
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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain by Forrest G. Robinson (Editor)ISBN: 9780521440363
Publication Date: 1995-06-30
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives.
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Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction by Tom QuirkISBN: 9780805708677
Publication Date: 1997-07-11
Tom Quirk's study provides a comprehensive analysis of the comic genius and narrative originality that makes Mark Twain's short fiction a cornerstone of the American literary tradition. Quirk's presentation of Twain's career as a writer of short fiction is complemented with selections of Twain's essays rounds out this balanced and informative work. Quirk's selections of Twain's writing provide excellent examples of the literary energy that Quirk so vividly describes.
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Mark Twain, American Humorist by Tracy WusterISBN: 9780826274113
Publication Date: 2017-12-01
Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. Tracy Wuster wrote this volume as part of the Mark Twain and His Circle series.
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Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction by Michael J. KiskisISBN: 9780817389901
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Twain scholar Michael J. Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction, Kiskis persuasively argues that not only was Mark Twain not, as many believe, "antidomestic," but rather that home and family were the muse and core message of his writing.
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Mark Twain and France: The Making of a New American Identity by Paula Harrington; Ronald JennISBN: 9780826273772
Publication Date: 2017-07-31
Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be "American" in the second half of the nineteenth century. 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."
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Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture by Henry B. Wonham (Editor); Lawrence Howe (Editor)ISBN: 9780817319441
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America's most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens's often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain's writing.
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Mark Twain in China by Selina Lai-HendersonISBN: 9780804794756
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.
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Mark Twain and the Bible by Allison EnsorISBN: 9780813162638
Publication Date: 2014-07-15
Mark Twain enthusiasts will welcome this study of the great writer's attitude toward the Bible -- and of the influence of Holy Writ upon both the man and the artist. While the theological beliefs of Twain have been well documented, Mr. Ensor's study is the first to consider only his familiarity with the Bible and the extensive use of it in his writings. Mr. Ensor suggests that from the Bible Twain may have derived three images that recur in his works: the Prodigal Son, Adam, and Noah.
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