A historical guide to Mark Twain
By: edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
Contributors: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher.
Series: Historical guides to American authors
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- History; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Political and social views; Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: The Historical Guides to American Authors is an interdisciplinary, historically sensitive series that combines close attention to the United States' most widely read and studied authors with a strong sense of time, place, and history. Placing each writer in the contect of the vibrant relationship between literature and contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance. they also include a capsule biography and illustrated chronology detailing important cultural events as they coincided with the author's life and works, while photographs and illustrations dating from the period capture the flavor of the author's time and social milieu. Equally accessible to students of literature and of life, the volumes offer a complete and rounded picture of each author in his or her America. -- back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3; title: Shelley Fisher Fishkin; title: Mark Twain, 1835-1910: A Brief Biography 3; title: Forrest Robinson; title: TWAIN IN HIS TIME; title: 'A Moralist in Disguise": Mark Twain and American Religion 55; title: Harold K. Bush, Jr.; title: A Republican Artisan in the Court of King Capital: Mark Twain and Commerce 95; title: Gregg Camfield; title: Mark Twain and Race 27; title: Shelley Fisher Fishkin; title: Mark Twain and Gender 63; title: Susan K. Harris; title: Mark Twain and Social Class 95; title: Robert E. Weir; title: Mark Twain and Imperialism 227; title: Jim Zwick; title: Illustrated Chronology 257; title: Bibliographical Essay 279; title: Shelley Fisher Fishkin.