The Reconstruction of Mark Twain : How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fulton, Joe B., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Political and social views.
Political and social views.
Literature and society.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780807138045

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