Lighting out for the territory : reflections on Mark Twain and American culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge--America.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Appreciation--United States.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

United States--In literature.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mark Twain has been called the American Cervantes, our Homer, our Tolstoy, our Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway maintained that ""all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."" President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the phrase ""New Deal"" from AConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Twain's Gilded Age gave an entire era its name. Twain is everywhere--in ads for Bass Ale, in episodes of ""Star Trek,"" as a greeter in Nevada's Silver Legacy casino. Clearly, the reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. In Lighting Out for theTerritory, T

Contents:

Contents; Prologue; 1 The Matter of Hannibal; 2 Excavations; 3 Ripples and Reverberations; Epilogue; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4294-1580-0

1-280-52994-6

0-19-972883-6

OCLC:

870243334