A companion to Mark Twain / / edited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd
| A companion to Mark Twain / / edited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (590 p.) |
| Disciplina | 818/.409 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MessentPeter <1946->
BuddLouis J |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| ISBN |
0-9968701-9-9
1-78268-615-0 1-280-28615-6 9786610286157 1-4051-6508-1 0-470-99687-0 1-4051-5219-2 |
| Classificazione |
930.268
818/.409 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
A 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
12 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 24 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 34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of WitPART VII A Retrospective; 35 The State of Mark Twain Studies; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825333103321 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The life of Daniel Defoe : a critical biography / / John Richetti
| The life of Daniel Defoe : a critical biography / / John Richetti |
| Autore | Richetti John J. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , [2005] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (419 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.5 |
| Collana | Blackwell Critical Biographies |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, English - 18th century
Journalists - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
9786610237425
9781119118008 111911800X 9781280237423 1280237422 9780470700303 0470700300 9780470754665 0470754664 9781405150347 1405150343 |
| Classificazione |
930.268
823/.5 B |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator, Writer; 2 Early Writings 1697-1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems; 3 Political Journalism: 1697-1710; 4 Political Agent and Journalist:Queen Anne to the Hanoverians; 5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714-31; 6 Robinson Crusoe; 7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure; 8 Crime and Narrative; 9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment; 10 History, Facts, and Literature; 11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715-31; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911019357903321 |
Richetti John J.
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| [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , [2005] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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