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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811733803321

Autore

Robinson Forrest G (Forrest Glen), <1940->

Titolo

The author-cat [[electronic resource] ] : Clemens's life in fiction / / Forrest G. Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8232-4746-5

0-8232-4096-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 242 p. )

Disciplina

818/.409

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Never quite sane in the night -- The general and the maid -- My list of permanencies -- Telling fictions -- Dreaming better dreams.

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing the theme of bad faith in all of Clemens's major writing, particularly the late work, Robinson sheds light on a tormented moral life. His book challenges conventional assumptions about the humorist's personality and creativity, directing attention to what William Dean Howells describes as 'the depths of a nature whose tragical seriousness broke in the laughter which the unwise took for the whole of him.'