Mark Twain & the South /
The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. To follow his changing a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1974.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Convinced & content : the Missouri years
- The most conceited ass in the territory
- Bless you, I'm reconstructed
- White feuds & Black Sambos
- Paradise lost : the Mississippi South revisited
- A lot of prejudiced chuckleheads : the White Southerner in Huckleberry Finn
- Heroes or puppets? : Clemens, John Lewis, & George Griffin
- Everything all busted up & ruined : the fate of brotherhood in Huckleberry Finn
- We ought to be ashamed of ourselves : Mark Twain's shifting color line, 1880-1910
- The Black & White curse : Pudd'nhead Wilson & miscegenation
- From stage nigger to mulatto superman : the end of Nigger Jim & the rise of Jasper
- No peace, no brotherhood
- Appendix: "The private history of a campaign that failed."