The author-cat : Clemens's life in fiction / Forrest G. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Forrest G. (Forrest Glen), 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Psychology.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 242 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing the theme of bad faith in all of Clemens's major writing, particularly the late work, Robinson sheds light on a tormented moral life. His book challenges conventional assumptions about the humorist's personality and creativity, directing attention to what William Dean Howells describes as 'the depths of a nature whose tragical seriousness broke in the laughter which the unwise took for the whole of him.'

Contents:

Never quite sane in the night

The general and the maid

My list of permanencies

Telling fictions

Dreaming better dreams.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4746-5

0-8232-4096-7

OCLC:

608167752