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The mercurial Mark Twain(s) : reception history, audience engagement, and iconic authorship / James L. Machor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machor, James L., author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in American literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation--History.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Appreciation.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Public opinion.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--In popular culture.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Humorists, American--19th century--Biography.
- Humorists, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 337 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- James L. Machor is an Emeritus Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (2011) and Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America (1987). He has edited Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response (1993) and co-edited Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (2001) and New Directions in American Reception Study (2008). He is also the senior co-editor of Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the peer-reviewed journal of the Reception Study Society.
- Contents:
- Twain's early reception : the humorist and more
- Notorious celebrity : from Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn
- Vintage variations and new Mark Twains, 1889-1899
- The final decade : from celebrity polemicist to mercurial icon
- Twain's early afterlives, 1910-1939
- Old Twains, new Twains, and fresh controversies : race, myth, adaptations, and the Cold War, 1940-1959
- Texts, politics, and hypercanonization : corpus, canon, and significances in the 1960s and 1970s
- Ever-changing marks : shaping Twain by century's end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Machor, James L. Mercurial Mark Twain(s)
- ISBN:
- 9781000814200
- 1000814203
- 9781003256373
- 1003256376
- 9781000814071
- 1000814076
- Publisher Number:
- 40031698840
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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