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9780195132939

A Historical Guide to Mark Twain

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    9780195132939

  • ISBN10:

    0195132939

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-03
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice,journalist, steamboat pilot, lapsed Confederate soldier, and miner, remains tothis day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers.Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide toMark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, includingreligion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of theHistorical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, abrief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of theauthor's life and times.

Author Biography


Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of The Oxford Mark Twain and author of Was Huck Black? (OUP) and Lighting Out for the Territory (OUP).

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(10)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Mark Twain, 1835-1910: A Brief Biography
13(42)
Forrest Robinson
TWAIN IN HIS TIME
``A Moralist in Disguise'': Mark Twain and American Religion
55(40)
Harold K. Bush, Jr.
A Republican Artisan in the Court of King Capital: Mark Twain and Commerce
95(32)
Gregg Camfield
Mark Twain and Race
127(36)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Mark Twain and Gender
163(32)
Susan K. Harris
Mark Twain and Social Class
195(32)
Robert E. Weir
Mark Twain and Imperialism
227(30)
Jim Zwick
Illustrated Chronology 257(22)
Bibliographical Essay 279(20)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Contributors 299(4)
Index 303

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