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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787823503321

Autore

McParland Robert

Titolo

Mark Twain's audience : a critical analysis of reader responses to the writings of Mark Twain / / Robert McParland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-0428-0

0-7391-9052-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

818/.409

Soggetti

Books and reading - United States - History

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

America's Mark Twain -- The Innocents abroad and the American reader -- Marketing Mark Twain -- The trouble that began at eight: audiences for Twain's lectures -- Childhood reading -- Reading in cultural institutions -- The variety of readers: gender, race, ethnicity -- The global audience -- Mark Twain's audience and his afterlife.

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twain's audience as a unique "reading community"-how his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality and humor that Twain brought to their lives. </span></span>