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"Littery man" : Mark Twain and modern authorship / Richard S. Lowry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowry, Richard S., 1954-
- Series:
- Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
- Commonwealth Center studies in American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Authorship.
- Twain, Mark.
- Authorship--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Authorship.
- Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, American.
- Authors and readers--United States--History--19th century.
- Authors and readers.
- Fiction--Authorship--History--19th century.
- Fiction.
- Self in literature.
- Canon (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 177 pages).
- Other Title:
- Mark Twain and modern authorship
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens became one of America's first modern celebrities, successfully straddling the conflicts between culture and commerce. Twain manipulated the cultural outlets of his day, not only through publication of his diverse novels, but through newspapers, magazines, book reviews, advertising, and his popular performances and readings. In Littery Man, Richard Lowry examines a range of Twain's major works to show how the writer strove to establish his authority over the course of his career. For Lowry, Samuel Clemens's supreme fiction and most explicitly artful performance was Mark Twain, the fiction that authorized his fiction. Lowry reconstructs that performance as the moment at which the American Writer emerged as a profession. He gives attention to the historical and cultural context of the Gilded age, from Twain's influential contemporary William Dean Howells to the various genre books that Twain consistently mastered, e.g., travel guidebooks, manuals for boys, and autobiographies. The result is that Littery Man will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth century American literature and culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781280528552
- 1280528559
- 9781429406680
- 1429406682
- 9780195356243
- 0195356241
- 9780199855087
- 0199855080
- 0-19-985508-0
- 1-4294-0668-2
- 1-280-52855-9
- 0-19-535624-1
- OCLC:
- 936848279
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