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Author |
: Laura E. Skandera Trombley |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1997-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0812216199 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812216196 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mark Twain in the Company of Women by : Laura E. Skandera Trombley
The field of Mark Twain biography has been dominated by men, and Samuel Clemens himself - riverboat pilot, Western correspondent, silver prospector, world traveler - has been traditionally portrayed as a man's man. The publication of Laura E. Skandera-Trombley's Mark Twain in the Company of Women, however, marks a significant departure from conventional scholarship. Skandera-Trombley, the first woman to write a scholarly biography of Mark Twain, contends that Clemens intentionally surrounded himself with women, and that his capacity to produce extended fictions had almost as much to do with the environment shaped by his female family as with the talent and genius of the writer himself. Women helped Clemens to define his boundaries, both personal and literary. Women shaped his life, edited his books, and provided models for his fictional characters. Clemens read and corresponded with female authors, and often actively promoted their careers. Skandera-Trombley seeks to combine a biographical study of Clemens's life with his beloved wife, Olivia (Livy) Langdon, and their three daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean, with new readings of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Several crucial areas are investigated: the nature of Clemens's family participation in his writing process, the degree to which their experiences as women during the mid- and late nineteenth century affected his writing, and the extent to which the loss of his family may have impeded and ultimately ended his ability to write lengthy narratives. Skandera-Trombley points out that in marrying Livy, Clemens not only joined a family of substantial means, but also entered one active in thesuffragist, abolitionist, and other reformist movements, which had deep roots in the progressive community of Elmira, New York. Mark Twain in the Company of Women will be of interest to Twain scholars and readers as well as students in American studies, women's studies, nineteenth-century history, and political and cultural studies.
Author |
: Alan Pell Crawford |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780544836464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0544836464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Not to Get Rich by : Alan Pell Crawford
A detailed and humorous account of the various disastrous money schemes and entrepreneurial pursuits of Mark Twain, who was noted for his spectacularly bad financial decisions during the Gilded Age
Author |
: Ulysses Simpson Grant |
Publisher |
: New York, C. L. Webster & Company |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 1885 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044022643373 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ... by : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
Author |
: Sarah Wadsworth |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 155849541X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781558495418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Company of Books by : Sarah Wadsworth
Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
Author |
: Mark Twain |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015049835963 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gilded Age by : Mark Twain
Author |
: Mark Twain |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 1917 |
ISBN-10 |
: UGA:32108022375813 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mark Twain's Letters by : Mark Twain
Author |
: S. C. Webster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1946 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:847153578 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mark Twain by : S. C. Webster
Author |
: Mark Twain |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000029579518 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sketches New and Old by : Mark Twain
Author |
: Mark Twain |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 1946 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015040756986 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mark Twain, Business Man by : Mark Twain
Contains a collection of family and business letters, most of which have not previously been published, largely concerned with Mark Twain's publishing venture with the editor's father, Charles L. Webster. cf. Foreword.
Author |
: Andrew Jay Hoffman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 572 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0753804581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780753804582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inventing Mark Twain by : Andrew Jay Hoffman
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.