Mark Twain and the Community [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blues, Thomas.

Series:

A University of Kentucky study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community life in literature.

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

Literature and society.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and social views.

Twain, Mark.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1970.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout his career Mark Twain viewed the relations between the individual and his community with mixed feelings, and this book explores both the ambiguities of Twain's attitude and their effect upon his fiction. In the earlier novels -- most notably The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- the protagonist enjoys a dual position -- at liberty to follow his own inclinations while retaining his conventional place as a respected member of the community -- and the resolutions of these works are built upon this duality. Facing realities which the earlier fiction evaded, Twain in A

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: The Strategy of Compromise; Chapter Two: A Connecticut Yankee: ""Ah, What a Donkey I Was""; Chapter Three: The Yankee as Old Man; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6215-7

OCLC:

558062133