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Lowry Richard S |
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Titolo |
"Littery man" [[electronic resource] ] : Mark Twain and modern authorship / / Richard S. Lowry |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52855-9 |
1-4294-0668-2 |
0-19-535624-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Collana |
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Commonwealth Center studies in American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens straddled the conflicts between culture |
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