Mark Twain in the company of women:
The field of Mark Twain biography has been dominated by men, and Samuel Clemens himself - riverboat pilot, Western correspondent, silver prospector, world traveler - has been traditionally portrayed as a man's man. The publication of Laura E. Skandera-Trombley's Mark Twain in the Company o...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The field of Mark Twain biography has been dominated by men, and Samuel Clemens himself - riverboat pilot, Western correspondent, silver prospector, world traveler - has been traditionally portrayed as a man's man. The publication of Laura E. Skandera-Trombley's Mark Twain in the Company of Women, however, marks a significant departure from conventional scholarship. Skandera-Trombley, the first woman to write a scholarly biography of Mark Twain, contends that Clemens intentionally surrounded himself with women, and that his capacity to produce extended fictions had almost as much to do with the environment shaped by his female family as with the talent and genius of the writer himself. Women helped Clemens to define his boundaries, both personal and literary. Women shaped his life, edited his books, and provided models for his fictional characters. Clemens read and corresponded with female authors, and often actively promoted their careers Skandera-Trombley seeks to combine a biographical study of Clemens's life with his beloved wife, Olivia (Livy) Langdon, and their three daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean, with new readings of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Several crucial areas are investigated: the nature of Clemens's family participation in his writing process, the degree to which their experiences as women during the mid- and late nineteenth century affected his writing, and the extent to which the loss of his family may have impeded and ultimately ended his ability to write lengthy narratives. Skandera-Trombley points out that in marrying Livy, Clemens not only joined a family of substantial means, but also entered one active in the suffragist, abolitionist, and other reformist movements, which had deep roots in the progressive community of Elmira, New York Mark Twain in the Company of Women will be of interest to Twain scholars and readers as well as students in American studies, women's studies, nineteenth-century history, and political and cultural studies |
| Beschreibung: | XXIII, 219 S. Ill. |
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Mark Twain in the
Company of Women
Laura E Skandera-Trombley
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Preface xv
Introduction xix
1 Polishing Off a Genius i
2 The Charmed Circle 24
3 Youth and Gravity 40
4 Elmira, Queen of the Southern Tier: Era of Reform, Part 1 65
5 Elmira's Cultural Influence: Era of Reform, Part 2 104
6 I am woman's rights: Olivia Langdon Clemens's
Feminist Intimates 131
7 The Circle Dissolves 155
8 The Resurgence of Mark Twain 171
Epilogue 197
Primary Works Cited 199
Secondary Works Cited 205
Index 211 |
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