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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972561503321

Autore

Kiskis Michael J.

Titolo

Mark Twain at Home : How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction / / Michael J. Kiskis ; foreword by Laura Skandera Trombley ; afterword by Gary Scharnhorst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8173-8990-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Collana

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Disciplina

813/.409

Soggetti

Families in iterature

Home in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Embracing domesticity: The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Horace Bushnell and Huck: Christian nurture and adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Children of the urban poor: Tom Canty and Edward VI -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's household and the tragedy of Valet de chambre -- Conclusion: Sam Clemens' haunted home.

Sommario/riassunto

Twain scholar Michael J.Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife.