The reconstruction of Mark Twain: how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature
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1. Verfasser: Fulton, Joe B. 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press © 2010
Schriftenreihe:Conflicting worlds
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
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Beschreibung:"The killing of strangers": Mark Twain's Missouri and the Civil War, 1835-1861 -- "I naturally love a Yankee": Twain's civil war in Nevada, 1861-1864 -- "The genative, dative, and ablative cases of traitors": Twain's San Francisco satires, 1864-1866 -- Seeking a reputation "That shall stand fire": Twain, Reconstruction, and the impeachment crisis in Washington, 1866-1869 -- The "Lincoln of our literature": the reconstructed Mark Twain, 1870-1910
Includes bibliographical references and index
When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist to fight for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. After all, Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), his essay "The United States of Lyncherdom."
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 237 pages)
ISBN:0807136913
0807138045
9780807136911
9780807138045

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