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Mark Twain at Home : How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction / Michael J. Kiskis ; foreword by Laura Skandera Trombley ; afterword by Gary Scharnhorst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiskis, Michael J., author.
- Series:
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Family.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Homes and haunts.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Families in iterature.
- Home in literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Twain scholar Michael J.Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife.
- Contents:
- Embracing domesticity: The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Horace Bushnell and Huck: Christian nurture and adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Children of the urban poor: Tom Canty and Edward VI
- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's household and the tragedy of Valet de chambre
- Conclusion: Sam Clemens' haunted home.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8990-3
- OCLC:
- 951749586
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