Mark Twain and Male Friendship : The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships


Peter. Messent
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2009.
Omfang
1 online resource (269 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction; 1 Male Friendship and Post-Civil War America; 2 Clemens and Twichell; 3 Clemens, Twichell, and Religion; 4 "My Dear 'Owells": Clemens and Howells; 5 Clemens, Howells, and Realism; 6 Clemens, Manhood, the Rogers Friendship, and "Which Was the Dream?"; 7 Clemens and Rogers: "Both Members of This Club"; Coda: Friendship's Limits: Fathers and Daughters; Notes; Index. - Biographies of America's greatest humorist abound, but none have charted the overall influence of the key male friendships that profoundly informed his life and work. Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, Mark Twain and Male Friendship presents a welcome new perspective as it examines three vastly different friendships and the stamp they left on Samuel Clemens's life. With accessible prose informed by impressive research, the study provides an illuminating history of the friendships it explores, and the personal and cultural dynamic of the relationships. In the case of Twa
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9780195391169

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