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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465659703321

Autore

Lowry Richard S

Titolo

"Littery man" [[electronic resource] ] : Mark Twain and modern authorship / / Richard S. Lowry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

1-280-52855-9

1-4294-0668-2

0-19-535624-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Commonwealth Center studies in American culture

Disciplina

818/.409

Soggetti

Authorship - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Autobiographical fiction, American - History and criticism

Authors and readers - United States - History - 19th century

Fiction - Authorship - History - 19th century

Self in literature

Canon (Literature)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; INTRODUCTION: Mark Twain's Autobiographies of Authorship; ONE: ""Littery Man"": The Rhetoric of Authorship; I. ""The Sole Form""; II. Literary Reverence: The Whittier Birthday Banquet; III. Local Differences; TWO: Consuming Desire: The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; I. Speculating in the Market; II. Siteless Sights: The Innocents Abroad; III. The Magic of Composition: Roughing It; THREE: A ""Rightly Constructed Boy's Life"": The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; I. Nostalgia and Play; II. Rightly Constructing Boys; III. Fracturing: Injun Joe

FOUR: ""By the Book"": Adventures of Huckleberry FinnI. On the Verge of Authorship; II. Autobiography and the Making of the Literate Author; III. Fighting Words; Coda: ""Speaking from the Grave""; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens straddled the conflicts between culture



and commerce that characterized the era he named the Gilded Age. In ""Littery Man"", Richard Lowry examines how Twain used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an ""autobiography of authorship,"" a narrative of his ownclaims to literary authority at that moment when the American Writer emerged as a profession. Drawing on wide range of cultural genres--popular boys' fiction, childbearing manuals, travel narratives, autobiography, and criticism and fiction of the period--Lowry reconstructs how Twain participated inrem