03908nam 2200757Ia 450 991046565970332120200520144314.01-280-52855-91-4294-0668-20-19-535624-1(CKB)2560000000295597(EBL)270838(OCoLC)567932964(SSID)ssj0000193229(PQKBManifestationID)11937212(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193229(PQKBWorkID)10216419(PQKB)10142458(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034449(MiAaPQ)EBC270838(Au-PeEL)EBL270838(CaPaEBR)ebr10142327(CaONFJC)MIL52855(OCoLC)936848279(EXLCZ)99256000000029559719950714d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr"Littery man"[electronic resource] Mark Twain and modern authorship /Richard S. LowryNew York Oxford University Press19961 online resource (188 p.)Commonwealth Center studies in American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-510212-6 0-19-985508-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 JoeFOUR: ""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; ZAs Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens straddled the conflicts between culture and commerce that characterized the era he named the Gilded Age. In ""Littery Man"", Richard Lowry examines how Twain used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an ""autobiography of authorship,"" a narrative of his ownclaims to literary authority at that moment when the American Writer emerged as a profession. Drawing on wide range of cultural genres--popular boys' fiction, childbearing manuals, travel narratives, autobiography, and criticism and fiction of the period--Lowry reconstructs how Twain participated inremCommonwealth Center studies in American culture.AuthorshipSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAutobiographical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAuthors and readersUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFictionAuthorshipHistory19th centurySelf in literatureCanon (Literature)Electronic books.AuthorshipSocial aspectsHistoryAutobiographical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Authors and readersHistoryFictionAuthorshipHistorySelf in literature.Canon (Literature)818/.409Lowry Richard S102980Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465659703321"Littery man"1895141UNINA