Mark Twains Ethical Realism

Author : Joe B. Fulton
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826211446
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Ethical Realism written by Joe B. Fulton and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain's Ethical Realism is the only work that looks specifically at how Twain blends ethical and aesthetic concerns in the act of composing his novels. Fulton conducts a spirited discussion regarding these concepts, and his explanation of how they relate to Twain's writing helps to clarify the complexities of his creative genius.

Author : Joe Boyd Fulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Moral Realism written by Joe Boyd Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregg Camfield
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512807133
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sentimental Twain written by Gregg Camfield and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sentimental Twain, Gregg Camfield examines the major and minor works of Mark Twain to redraw the boundaries between sentimentalism and realism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Beginning by taking the reactions to the question of race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a test case, Camfield reveals that sentimental ethics persist, though buried, in American culture, and he argues that Americans' ambivalent responses to sentimentalism explain some of the continuing controversy surrounding Mark Twain's work. Specifically, he contends, insofar as the liberal agenda remains substantially sentimental—especially when dealing with issues of race—today's readers of Twain participate in the same dialectic between sentimental compassion and realistic cynicism that Twain himself confronted. Camfield then traces the cultural development of this ethical dialectic and follows Mark Twain's reactions to it, showing that Twain was a closet sentimentalist whose public attacks on sentimentalism veiled a deep longing for a more compassionate world. Throughout, Sentimental Twain is grounded in a discussion of philosophical contexts of nineteenth-century American sentimental literature, paying particular attention to the Scottish Common Sense philosophers but looking forward to the Pragmatism of William James.

Author : Robert Alonzo Wiggins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Novels written by Robert Alonzo Wiggins and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199736804
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and Male Friendship written by Peter Messent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.

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 : Peter Messent
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119117917
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Mark Twain written by Peter Messent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years 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 Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism

Author : Jarrod D. Roark
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638055
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain at the Gallows written by Jarrod D. Roark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a literary exploration of Mark Twain's writings on crime in the American West and its intersection with morality, gender and justice. Writing from his office at the Enterprise newspaper in the Nevada Territory, Twain employed a distinct style of crime writing--one that sensationalized facts and included Twain's personal philosophies and observations. Covering Twain's journalism, fictional works and his own personal letters, this book contextualizes the writer's coverage of crime through his anxieties about westward expansion and the promise of a utopian West. Twain's observations on the West often reflected common perceptions of the day, positioning him as a "voice of the people" on issues like crime, punishment and gender.

Author : Joe B. Fulton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354735
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in the Margins written by Joe B. Fulton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By redefining Twain's aesthetic, Fulton reinvigorates current debates about what constitutes literary realism."--Jacket.

Author : Harold K. Bush
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817315381
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age written by Harold K. Bush and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-01-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. This book highlights Twain's attractions to and engagements with the variety of religious phenomena of America in his lifetime. It offers a more complicated understanding of Twain and his literary output.