A Companion to Mark Twain (E-Book, PDF)
eBook - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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ISBN/EAN: 9781405152198
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 592 S., 2.94 MB
Erschienen am
15.04.2008
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
<p>This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.</p><ul><li>One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years</li><li>Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature</li><li>Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience</li><li>A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism</li></ul>
Peter Messent is Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature at Nottingham University. He is the author ofThe Crime Fiction Handbook (2012), the prize-winningMark Twain and Male Friendship(2009),The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study (2001),Mark Twain (1997),Ernest Hemingway (1992), andNew Readings of the American Novel: Narrative Theory and its Application (1990).Louis J. Budd died after this book was first published, in 2011. He was James B. Duke Professor (Emeritus) of American Literature at Duke University, where he taught American Literature from 1981 to 1991. He was also the author ofMark Twain: Social Philosopher (reissued 2001) andOur Mark Twain: The Making of his Public Personality (1983) and the editor ofMark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews (1999). He served as founding president of the Mark Twain Circle of America
