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The Cambridge companion to Mark Twain
Title:
The Cambridge companion to Mark Twain
Author:
Robinson, Forrest G. (Forrest Glen), 1940-
Publication Information:
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Physical Description:
xix, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Mark Twain as an American icon / Louis J. Budd -- The innocent at large: Mark Twain's travel writing / Forrest G. Robinson -- Mark Twain and women / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Mark Twain's Civil War: humor's reconstructive writing / Neil Schmitz -- Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and classic American literature / Myra Jehlen -- Black critics and Mark Twain / David Lionel Smith -- Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, race, and blackface / Eric Lott -- Speech acts and social action: Mark Twain and the politics of literary performance / Evan Carton -- How the boss played the game: Twain's critique of imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / John Carlos Rowe -- Mark Twain's travels in the racial occult: Following the equator and the Dream tales / Susan Gillman -- Mark Twain's theology: the gods of a brevet Presbyterian / Stanley Brodwin.
ISBN:
9780521440363

9780521445931
Format :
Book