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Rasmussen, R. Kent.
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818.409 22
Publication Date
2011
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This volume collects a variety of essays on Twain's life and works. One outlines the essential details of Twain's life, and four others provide valuable introductory material. A selection of other essays provides readers with a deeper understanding of the critical issues surrounding Twain's work. Concluding the volume are a chronology of Twain's life, a list of his principal works, and a bibliography of critical works for readers desiring to study Twain in greater depth.
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Quirk, Tom, 1946-
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818.409 22
Publication Date
2007
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"Explores Mark Twain's works--including The Innocents Abroad, Following the Equator, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Puddin' Head Wilson, and What Is Man?--in terms of his interest in the subject of human nature, examining how his outlook on the human condition changed over the years"--Provided by publisher.
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Sloane, David E. E., 1943-
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818.409 21
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2001
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Robinson, Forrest G. (Forrest Glen), 1940-
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818.409 23
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2011
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Morris, Linda A. (Linda Ann)
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818.409 22
Publication Date
2007
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"Explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the cast of his characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations. Morris grounds her study in an understanding of the era's theatrical cross-dressing and changing mores, and events in Clemens's own household"--Provided by publisher.
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Skandera-Trombley, Laura E.
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813.4 22
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2001
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Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962-
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813.4 22
Publication Date
2007
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Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature. Both intuited that the transitory nature of adolesc.
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Johnson, Joel A., 1974-
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813.409358 22
Publication Date
2007
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"Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new insight into the relationship between the state and the individual"--Provided by publisher.
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Caron, James Edward, 1952-
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818.409 22
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2008
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"A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, then in the travel letters from Hawaii and letters chronicling his trip from California to New York City"--Provided by publisher.
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Justus, James H.
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641.5976 22
Publication Date
2004
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"For more than a quarter-century, despite the admirable excavations that have unearthed such humorists as John Gorman Barr and Marcus Lafayette, the most significant of the humorists from the Old Southwest have remained the same: Crockett, Longstreet, Thompson, Baldwin, Thorpe, Hooper, Robb, Harris, and Lewis. Forming a kind of shadow canon in American literature that led to Mark Twain's early work, from 1834 to 1867 these authors produced a body of writing that continues to reward attentive readers." "James H. Justus's Fetching the Old Southwest examines this writing in the context of other discourses contemporaneous with it: travel books, local histories, memoirs, and sports manuals, as well as unpublished private forms such as personal correspondence, daybooks, and journals. Like most writing, humor is a product of its place and time, and the works studied herein are no exception. The antebellum humorists provide an important look into the social and economic conditions that were prevalent in the southern "new country," a place that would, in time, become the Deep South." "While previous books about Old Southwest humor have focused on individual authors, Justus has produced the first critical study to encompass all of the humor from this time period. Teachers and students of literary history will appreciate the incredible range of documentation, both primary and secondary."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Felgar, Robert, 1944-
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810.93552 23
Publication Date
2015
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Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.
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