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" Constructing Mark Twain : "
edited with an introduction by Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Michael J. Kiskis.
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BL
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847624
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Constructing Mark Twain : : new directions in scholarship /\ edited with an introduction by Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Michael J. Kiskis.
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| Publication Statement
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Columbia :: University of Missouri Press,, ©2001.
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| Series Statement
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Mark Twain and his circle series
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1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0826213774
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: 0826263550
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: 1417528311
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: 9780826213778
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: 9780826263551
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: 9781417528318
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
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| Contents
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Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. Kiskis -- Samuel Clemens as family man and father / Victor A. Doyno -- "To his preferred friends he revealed his true character": Mary Mason Fairbank's disguised debate with Sam Clemens" / J.D. Stahl -- Mark Twain's mechanical marvels / Jeffrey Steinbrink -- Steamboats, cocaine, and paper money: Mark Twain rewriting himself / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Mark Twain, Isabel Lyon, and the "talking cure": negotiating nostalgia and nihilism in the Autobiography / Jennifer L. Zaccara -- The minstrel and the detective: the functions of ethnic caricature in Mark Twain's writings of the 1890's / Henry B. Wonham -- Huck, Jim, and the "black-and-white" fallacy / James S. Leonard -- Humor, sentimentality, and Mark Twain's black characters / David L. Smith -- Black genes and white lies: Twain and the romance of race / Ann M. Ryan -- Mark Twain in large and small / the infinite and the infinitesimal in Twain's late writing / Tom Quirk -- Mark Twain studies and the myth of metaphor / John Bird -- "Who killed Mark Twain?" Long live Samuel Clemens! / Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Gary Scharnhorst.
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Twain, Mark,1835-1910-- Criticism and interpretation-- History-- 20th century.
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Twain, Mark,1835-1910.
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Criticism-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.4
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PS1337.3.C66 2001eb
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Kiskis, Michael J.
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Skandera-Trombley, Laura E.
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