@article{351430,
      recid = {351430},
      author = {Lowry, Richard S.},
      title = {"Littery man" Mark Twain and modern authorship /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 177 p.)},
      year = {1996},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {A self-styled "American vandal" who pursued literary  celebrity with "a mercenary eye" even as genteel America  proclaimed him the American Rabelais, Samuel Clemens, as  Mark Twain, straddled the conflicts between culture and  commerce that characterized the era he named the Gilded  Age. In "Littery Man", Richard Lowry examines how Twain  used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an  "autobiography of authorship," a narrative of his own  claims to literary authority at that moment when the  American Writer emerged as a profession. Drawing on a wide  range of cultural genres - popular boys' fiction,  childrearing manuals, travel narratives, autobiography, and  criticism and fiction of the period - Lowry reconstructs  how Twain participated in remaking the "literary" into a  powerful social category of representation.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351430},
}