عنوان

Mark Twain /

(Number (ISBN

0195184858

(Number (ISBN

0198038062

(Number (ISBN

9780195184853

(Number (ISBN

9780198038061

Erroneous ISBN

0195170199

Number

b708656

Title Proper

Mark Twain /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Larzer Ziff.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (126 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Lives and legacies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index.

Text of Note

Celebrity -- Tourist -- Novelist -- Humorist.

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Text of Note

"Mark Twain emerges in this book as something of a paradox. His humor made him rich and famous, but he was unhappy with the role of humorist. He satirized the rapacious economic practices of his society, yet was caught up in those very practices himself. He was a literary genius who revolutionized the national literature, yet was unable to resist whatever quirky notion or joke that crossed his mind, often straying from his plot or contradicting his theme. Ziff offers an account of Twain's early years, explores all his major fiction, and concludes with a consideration of his craftsmanship and his strength as a cultural critic. He offers insight into Twain's travel writings, providing for example an account of Following the Equator, perhaps Twain's most underrated work. Throughout the book, Ziff examines Twain's writings in light of the literary cultures of his day - from frontier humorists to Matthew Arnold - and of parallel literary works of his time - comparing, for example, A Connecticut Yankee with major utopian works of the same decade. Thus the book is both a work of literary criticism and of cultural history."--Jacket.

Title

Mark Twain.

International Standard Book Number

0195170199

Twain, Mark,1835-1910.

Twain, Mark,1835-1910

Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography.

Authors, American.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

BIO-- 007000

LIT-- 004020

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ziff, Larzer,1927-

Date of Transaction

20201207233616.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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