LEADER 04257nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910825333103321 005 20251116150740.0 010 $a0-9968701-9-9 010 $a1-78268-615-0 010 $a1-280-28615-6 010 $a9786610286157 010 $a1-4051-6508-1 010 $a0-470-99687-0 010 $a1-4051-5219-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000341941 035 $a(EBL)243591 035 $a(OCoLC)475964707 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126133 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143606 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126133 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030925 035 $a(PQKB)10612012 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC243591 035 $a(PPN)226797414 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000341941 100 $a20050309d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to Mark Twain /$fedited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (590 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-4051-2379-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Note on Referencing; Acknowledgments; PART I The Cultural Context; 1 Mark Twain and Nation; 2 Mark Twain and Human Nature; 3 Mark Twain and America's Christian Mission Abroad; 4 Mark Twain and Whiteness; 5 Mark Twain and Gender; 6 Twain and Modernity; 7 Mark Twain and Politics; 8 "The State, it is I": Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists; PART II Mark Twain and Others; 9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists; 10 The "American Dickens": Mark Twain and Charles Dickens; 11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain 327 $a12 The Twain-Cable Combination13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism; PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing; 14 "I don't know A from B": Mark Twain and Orality; 15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing; 16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines; 17 Mark Twain and the Stage; 18 Mark Twain on the Screen; PART IV Mark Twain and Travel; 19 Twain and the Mississippi; 20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West; 21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe; 22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing; PART V Mark Twain's Fiction; 23 Mark Twain's Short Fiction 327 $a24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature25 Plotting and Narrating "Huck"; 26 Going to Tom's Hell in Huckleberry Finn; 27 History, "Civilization," and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; 28 Mark Twain's Dialects; 29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins; 30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain; PART VI Mark Twain's Humor; 31 Mark Twain's Visual Humor; 32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor; 33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor 327 $a34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of WitPART VII A Retrospective; 35 The State of Mark Twain Studies; Index 330 $aThis broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years.Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature.Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v38. 676 $a818/.409 686 $a930.268$2njb/09 686 $a818/.409$2njb/09 701 $aMessent$b Peter$f1946-$0600940 701 $aBudd$b Louis J$0600862 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825333103321 996 $aA Companion to Mark Twain$94125423 997 $aUNINA