Mark Twain and youth
Subtitle: studies in his life and writings
By: edited by Kevin Mac Donnell and R. Kent Rasmussen ; foreword by Hal Holbrook
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781474223126; 9781474225380
Subjects: Youth; Characters; Family; Criticism and interpretation; Childhood and youth; Children
Description: "One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also as a preeminent portrayer of youth. His famous writings about children and youthful themes are central to both his work and his popularity. The distinguished contributors to Mark Twain and Youth make Twain even more accessible to modern readers by fully exploring youth themes in both his life and his extensive writings. The volume's twenty-six original essays offer new perspectives on such important subjects as Twain's boyhood; his relationships with his siblings and his own children; his attitudes toward aging, gender roles, and slavery; the marketing, reception, teaching, and adaptation of his works; and youth themes in his individual novels--Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, The prince and the pauper, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Joan of Arc. The book also includes a revealing foreword by actor Hal Holbrook, who has performed longer as "Mark Twain" than Samuel Clemens himself did."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mark Twain on youth and aging  -- Holger Kersten; title: "Same damned fools" : Mark Twain and the deceptive promise of youth  -- Lawrence Berkove; title: Children's literature in the nineteenth century  -- Lucy E. Rollin; title: Mark Twain's lifelong reading  -- Alan Gribben; title: Sam and his siblings  -- Henry Sweets; title: Sam and Livy as parents  -- John Bird; title: Langdon Clemens and The adventures of Tom Sawyer  -- Joseph Csicsila; title: Susy Clemens : defined by her death  -- James Golden; title: Clara Clemens : the "Bay"  -- Cindy Lovell; title: Jean Clemens : a family reclaimed  -- Karen Lystra; title: A dialogue on Mark Twain's autobiography  -- Victor Fischer and Benjamin Griffin; title: Sam's boyhood friends  -- Henry Sweets; title: Health, disease, and children  -- K. Patrick Ober; title: Mark Twain's angelfish  -- Barbara Schmidt; title: Early stories and sketches  -- David E.E. Sloane; title: The adventures of Tom Sawyer  -- Peter Messent; title: The prince and the pauper  -- Hugh H. Davis; title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  -- Andrew Levy; title: Pudd'nhead Wilson  -- Debra Ann MacComb; title: Personal recollections of Joan of Arc  -- Ronald Jenn; title: Gender bending as child's play  -- Linda A. Morris; title: Orphans and adoption  -- Wendelinus Wurth; title: Black and white youth in Mark Twain's Hannibal  -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin; title: Mark Twain and the movies  -- Mark Dawidziak; title: Mark Twain meets Generation Z  -- Jocelyn A. Chadwick; title: A secondary school perspective -- John R. Pascal.