03278nam 2200625 450 991078721990332120200520144314.00-8131-3175-80-8131-4878-2(CKB)3710000000333923(EBL)1915048(SSID)ssj0001434966(PQKBManifestationID)12012497(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001434966(PQKBWorkID)11428464(PQKB)11051771(OCoLC)643684861(MdBmJHUP)muse43827(Au-PeEL)EBL1915048(CaPaEBR)ebr11011819(CaONFJC)MIL690806(MiAaPQ)EBC1915048(EXLCZ)99371000000033392320150204h20051974 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMark Twain & the South /Arthur G. PettitLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2005.©19741 online resource (235 p.)Includes index.1-322-59524-0 0-8131-1310-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1880-191010 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; WThe 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 people is to observe the evolving opinions of many Americans during the era that bears the abusive name he gave it -- the Gilded Age. This is the first book on a major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in MaLiterature and societySouthern StatesHistory19th centuryRace relations in literatureSouthern StatesIn literatureLiterature and societyHistoryRace relations in literature.818/.4/09BPettit Arthur G.1467734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787219903321Mark Twain & the South3678516UNINA