The Mercurial Mark Twain(s)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-18815-7 (ISBN)
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.
James L. Machor is an Emeritus Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (2011) and Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America (1987). He has edited Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response (1993) and co-edited Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (2001) and New Directions in American Reception Study (2008). He is also the senior co-editor of Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the peer-reviewed journal of the Reception Study Society.
Preface
Part 1
Chapter 1: Twain’s Early Reception: The Humorist and More
Chapter 2: Notorious Celebrity: From Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 3: Vintage Variations and New Mark Twains, 1889-1899
Chapter 4: The Final Decade: From Celebrity Polemicist to Mercurial Icon
Part 2
Chapter 5: Twain’s Early Afterlives, 1910-1939
Chapter 6: Old Twains, New Twains, and Fresh Controversies: Race, Myth, Adaptations, and the
Cold War, 1940-1959
Chapter 7: Texts, Politics, and Hypercanonization: Corpus, Canon, and Significances in the
1960s and 1970s
Chapter 8: Ever-Changing Marks: Shaping Twain by Century’s End
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 607 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-18815-4 / 1032188154 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-18815-7 / 9781032188157 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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