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Mark Twain & company : six literary relations / Leland Krauth.
LIBRA - Special PS1333 .K73 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krauth, Leland.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Friends and associates.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Contemporaries.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American fiction--English influences.
- American fiction.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Contemporaries.
- Friends and associates.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Mark Twain and company
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A fresh look at the great writer in relation to six contemporaries he had contact with on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Contents:
- Wringing the human heart: Mark Twain & Bret Harte
- Creating humor: Mark Twain & William Dean Howells
- Exposing the body in protest: Mark Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Holding up the looking glass: Mark Twain & Matthew Arnold
- Assaying manliness: Mark Twain & Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wandering devious: Mark Twain & Rudyard Kipling
- Conclusion: Viewing Mark Twain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0820325406
- OCLC:
- 51799517
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