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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pettit, Arthur G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."