How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson And Other Tales Of Rebellious Girls Daring Young Women

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294424
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls & Daring Young Women written by Mark Twain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of thirteen stories about unconventional girls and women.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848828394
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda A. Morris
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266193
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Play in Mark Twain written by Linda A. Morris and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's novel but hardly out of character--for the author, that is. Twain "troubled gender" in much of his otherwise traditional fiction, depicting children whose sexual identities are switched at birth, tomboys, same-sex married couples, and even a male French painter who impersonates his own fictive sister and becomes engaged to another man. This book explores Mark Twain's extensive use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the substantial cast of characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations. Linda Morris grounds her study in an understanding of the era's theatrical cross-dressing and changing mores and even events in the Clemens household. She examines and interprets Twain's exploration of characters who transgress gendered conventions while tracing the degree to which themes of gender disruption interact with other themes, such as his critique of race, his concern with death in his classic "boys' books," and his career-long preoccupation with twins and twinning. Approaching familiar texts in surprising new ways, Morris reexamines the relationship between Huck and Jim; discusses racial and gender crossing in Pudd'nhead Wilson; and sheds new light on Twain's difficulty in depicting the most famous cross-dresser in history, Joan of Arc. She also considers a number of his later "transvestite tales" that feature transgressive figures such as Hellfire Hotchkiss, who is hampered by her "misplaced sex." Morris challenges views of Twain that see his work as reinforcing traditional notions of gender along sharply divided lines. She shows that Twain depicts cross-dressing sometimes as comic or absurd, other times as darkly tragic--but that even at his most playful, he contests traditional Victorian notions about the fixity of gender roles. Analyzing such characteristics of Twain's fiction as his fascination with details of clothing and the ever-present element of play, Morris shows us his understanding that gender, like race, is a social construction--and above all a performance. Gender Play in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and Transgression broadens our understanding of the writer as it lends rich insight into his works.

Author : Bolich
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615167667
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgender History & Geography: Crossdressing in Context written by Bolich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a landmark five volume study of transgender realities, with a focus on crossdressing, this fascinating volume offers a tour through history and around the world. Within these pages are found the most famous crossdressers of history and information as to what it means to be a transgender person in the various countries of the world today.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520248333
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is He Dead? written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farcical comedy about the "value" of art by America's master satirist, the piece was ignored in its time, but it is stage worthy today. Introduction and notes by a well-known Twain scholar.

Author : Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274307
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Mark Twain written by Gary Scharnhorst and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891. During this time he wrote and published some of his best-known works, including Roughing It, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Significant events include his trips to England (1872–73) and Bermuda (1877); the controversy over his Whittier Birthday Speech in December 1877; his 1878–79 Wanderjahr on the continent; his 1882 tour of the Mississippi valley; his 1884–85 reading tour with George Washington Cable; his relationships with his publishers (Elisha Bliss, James R. Osgood, Andrew Chatto, and Charles L. Webster); the death of his son, Langdon, and the births and childhoods of his daughters Susy, Clara, and Jean; as well as the several lawsuits and personal feuds in which he was involved. During these years, too, Clemens expressed his views on racial and gender equality and turned to political mugwumpery; supported the presidential campaigns of Grover Cleveland; advocated for labor rights, international copyright, and revolution in Russia; founded his own publishing firm; and befriended former president Ulysses S. Grant, supervising the publication of Grant’s Memoirs. The Life of Mark Twain is the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in more than a century and has already been hailed as the definitive Twain biography.

Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195391160
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and Male Friendship written by Peter Messent and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, this book examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of Mark Twain.

Author : Joe B. Fulton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140344
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain Under Fire written by Joe B. Fulton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been under fire since the advent of his career.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294523
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Wonder written by Mark Twain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1984 as The science fiction of Mark Twain by Archon Books ... North Haven, CT"--T.p. verso.

Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334987
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Aquarium written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years. In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story. Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and invented games and plays for their amusement. For much of 1908, he was sending and receiving a letter a week from his angelfish. Cooley argues that Clemens saw cheerfulness and laughter as his only defenses against the despair of his late years. His enchantment with children, years before, had given birth to such characters as Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. In the frivolities of the Aquarium Club, it found its final expression. Cooley finds no evidence of impropriety in Clemens behavior with the girls. Perhaps his greatest crime, the editor suggests, was in idealizing them, in regarding them as precious collectibles. "He tried to trap them in the amber of endless adolescence," Cooley writes. "By pleading that they stay young and innocent, he was perhaps attempting to deny that, as they and the world continued to change, so must he."