Mark Twain in the Margins [[electronic resource] ] : The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / / Joe B. Fulton

• Autore: Fulton Joe B. <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.4
• Soggetto topico: Fiction - Technique; Realism in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Method of Transcription; List of Abbreviations; 1. Following the "Compass of Fact": Rethinking Mark Twain's Composing Process; 2. Twain's "Cloud of Witnesses": The 1885 and 1887 Marginalia in Lecky's Spirit of Rationalism; 3. Macaulay's "Stately Sentences": Twain's 1885 and 1887 Marginalia in The History of England; 4. "The Men of Old Ideas Must Die Off": Mark Twain and Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Thomas Carlyle's "Bucket of Blood": Twain's Rereading of The French Revolution; Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Through a mixture of careful research and imaginative analysis, Fulton creates a compelling re-vision of Twain as an artist." -American Literary Realism "With the skill of Sherlock Holmes at his best, Fulton deduces from seemingly trivial scribblings Twain's practice as a writer and his use of sources to form both incidents and his hero's social vision . . . . An important accomplishment in Twain studies." -Choice "Fulton has provided a store of potential future scholarship, and he has certainly raised t
• Titolo autorizzato: Mark Twain in the Margins
• ISBN: 0-8173-8019-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813296303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Literary Realism and Naturalism