LEADER 02892nam 22004092 450 001 9910149431003321 005 20190424135001.0 010 $a1-78204-850-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721197 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781782048503 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929644 100 $a20170215d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMark Twain under fire $ereception and reputation, criticism and controversy, 1851-2015 /$fJoe B. Fulton$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aRochester, New York :$cCamden House,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in American literature and culture: literary criticism in perspective 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019). 311 $a1-57113-553-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThreatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began his long writing career penning satirical articles forhis brother's newspaper in Hannibal, Missouri. His humor delighted everyone except his targets, and it would not be the last time his writing provoked threats of "dissection, tomahawking, libel, andgetting his head shot off." Clemens adopted the name Mark Twain while living in the Nevada Territory, where his caustic comedy led to angry confrontations, a challenge to a duel, and a subsequent flight. Nursing his wounded ego in California, Twain vowed to develop a reputation that would "stand fire" and in the process became the classic American writer.
Mark Twain under Fire tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer: his reception as a humorist, his "return fire" on genteel critics, and the development of academic criticism. As a history of Twain criticism, the book draws on English and foreign-language scholarship. Fulton discusses the forces and ideas that have influenced criticism, revealing how and why Mark Twain has been "under fire" fromthe advent of his career to the present day, when his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn remains one of America's most frequently banned books.

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