Mark Twain in the Margins [electronic resource] : The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Joe B. Fulton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

Series:

American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Realism in literature.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Technique.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Books and reading.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court--Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.

Summary:

"Through a mixture of careful research and imaginative analysis, Fulton creates a compelling re-vision of Twain as an artist." -American Literary Realism "With the skill of Sherlock Holmes at his best, Fulton deduces from seemingly trivial scribblings Twain's practice as a writer and his use of sources to form both incidents and his hero's social vision . . . . An important accomplishment in Twain studies." -Choice "Fulton has provided a store of potential future scholarship, and he has certainly raised t

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Method of Transcription; List of Abbreviations; 1. Following the "Compass of Fact": Rethinking Mark Twain's Composing Process; 2. Twain's "Cloud of Witnesses": The 1885 and 1887 Marginalia in Lecky's Spirit of Rationalism; 3. Macaulay's "Stately Sentences": Twain's 1885 and 1887 Marginalia in The History of England; 4. "The Men of Old Ideas Must Die Off": Mark Twain and Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Thomas Carlyle's "Bucket of Blood": Twain's Rereading of The French Revolution; Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8019-1

OCLC:

297912221