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Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson : race, conflict, and culture / edited by Susan Gillman and Forrest G. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Pudd'nhead Wilson.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and social views.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Social conflict in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Doubles in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors' introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd'nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender.In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, an
- Contents:
- Introduction / Susan Gillman and Forrest G. Robinson
- Pudd'nhead Wilson revisited / James M. Cox
- The sense of disorder in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Forrest G. Robinson
- Mark Twain and Homer Plessy / Eric J. Sundquist
- Francis Galton and Mark Twain : the natal autograph in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Michael Rogin
- "Sure identifiers" : race, science, and the law in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Susan Gillman
- The ties that bind : race and sex in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Myra Jehlen
- Roxana's plot / Carolyn Porter
- Fatal speculations : murder, money, and manners in Pudd'nhead Wilson / John Carlos Rowe
- "By right of the white election" : political theology and theological politics in Pudd'head Wilson / Michael Cowan
- Pudd'nhead Wilson on democratic governance / Wilson Carey McWilliams.
- "What did he reckon would become of the other half if he killed his half?" : doubled, divided, and crossed selves in Pudd'nhead Wilson; or, Mark Twain as cultural critic in his own times and ours / George E. Marcus
- Some of the ways of freedom in Pudd'nhead Wilson / John H. Schaar.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-254).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613062345
- 9781283062343
- 1283062348
- 9780822381624
- 0822381621
- OCLC:
- 841913177
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