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Mark Twain : unsanctified newspaper reporter / James E. Caron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caron, James Edward, 1952-
- Series:
- Mark Twain and his circle series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge and learning--Journalism.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Correspondence.
- Authors, American--19th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, American.
- Travel.
- Humorists, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Humorists, American--19th century.
- Humorists, American--19th century--Biography.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Travel.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge and learning--America.
- America.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Biographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- "A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, then in the travel letters from Hawaii and letters chronicling his trip from California to New York City"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue for a Comic Performance 1
- Act 1 The Comic Lineage of Washoe Mark Twain
- Scene 1 Backwoods Civility; or, How the Roarer Became a Gentleman
- Washoe Mark Twain and the Old Southwest Writers: Comic Violence and Cultural Barbarism 25
- David Crockett Meets Nimrod Wildfire 32
- Charles F. M. Noland on the Devil's Fork 41
- William Tappan Thompson's Domestic Roarer 44
- Scene 2 The Backwoods Roarer and the "Literary Comedian"
- Charles Farrar Browne's Artemus Ward: Scalawag and Spokesman 50
- Scene 3 The Communal Function of Comic Violence
- Sut Lovingood "Playin' Hell" 69
- William Wright's Dan De Quille as Citizen Clown 76
- Act 2 Washoe Mark Twain
- Scene 1 Sam Clemens Clowning on the Comstock
- Fighting Words 85
- Virginia City Carnival 88
- Brewing Washoe Mark Twain 98
- Mark Twain's Humor of Raillery 116
- Framing the Humor of Raillery 123
- Scene 2 Playing with Comic Dynamite
- Reading a Reporter Who Mocks Journalism 127
- Lying to the Public for Laughs 135
- Punchlines That Hurt 156
- Act 3 Mark Twain in San Francisco
- Scene 1 "Strike Up Higher" in the Periodical World
- A National Campaign 163
- Periodicals and the Professional Comic Writer 169
- Scene 2 Satire and the Bohemian Journalist
- The Satirist Reporting for the Morning Call 179
- Satirist as Literary Critic: Mark Twain in the Californian 186
- Fitz Smythe and the Sanctified 194
- Readers and Aesthetics in the Marketplace of Literary Periodicals 208
- Scene 3 American "Flaneurs"
- Of Flaneurs and Feuilletonistes: The Example of Bret Harte 222
- Comic Flaneur: Charles Webb 227
- Scene 4 "Flanerie" That Subverts the News
- Mark Twain's Comic Flanerie 234
- The Pose of Naive Innocence 242
- Spinning Yarns out of Facts 249
- Scene 5 "Foremost of the Merry Gentlemen of the California Press"
- That Celebrated Jumping Frog 257
- A Taste for Comic Material 265
- Act 4 Correspondent on Assignment
- Scene 1 Work and Leisure in Two Cultures
- Sam Clemens in Hawai'i 283
- American Missionaries and Hawai'ian Culture: Industry as Salvation 289
- How Hula Hula turned Mark Twain into a Missionary 299
- Scene 2 Mark Twain's Comic Raid on the Kingdom of Hawai'i
- Scenes in Honolulu 309
- Mark Twain and Mr. Brown Ransack the Islands 312
- Mr. Brown Defends a Centric Vision of Hawai'i 323
- Eccentric yet Civilized(?) Mark Twain and Mr. Brown 330
- Scene 3 Writing Travel Letters
- The Out-of-Town Correspondent 339
- Act 5 Correspondent at Large
- Scene 1 American Travel Letters
- The Ironic Return of Washoe Mark Twain 353
- Unsanctified Missionary 360
- Scene 2 Comic Performance
- Hawai'i's Queen Emma Convinces Mark Twain to Become a Comic Lecturer 373
- A Fellow Savage on the Lecture Platform 377
- Theater and Illusion 388
- Afterword: The Clown and the Satirist 393.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-444) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826218025
- 0826218024
- OCLC:
- 182851135
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