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Autore |
Pettit Arthur G. |
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Mark Twain & the South / / Arthur G. Pettit |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2005 |
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©1974 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-3175-8 |
0-8131-4878-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and society - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Race relations in literature |
Southern States In literature |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Convinced & Content: The Missouri Years; 2 The Most Conceited Ass in the Territory; 3 Bless You, I'm Reconstructed; 4 White Feuds & Black Sambos; 5 Paradise Lost: The Mississippi South Revisited; 6 A Lot of Prejudiced Chuckleheads: The White Southerner in Huckleberry Finn; 7 Heroes or Puppets? Clemens, John Lewis, & George Griffin; 8 Everything All Busted Up & Ruined: The Fate of Brotherhood in Huckleberry Finn; 9 We Ought to Be Ashamed of Ourselves: Mark Twain's Shifting Color Line, 1880-1910 |
10 The Black & White Curse: Pudd'nhead Wilson & Miscegenation11 From Stage Nigger to Mulatto Superman: The End of Nigger Jim & the Rise of Jasper; 12 No Peace, No Brotherhood; Appendix: ""The Private History of a Campaign that Failed""; Notes; Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. To follow his changing attitudes toward the South and its |
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