"Littery man" [electronic resource] : Mark Twain and modern authorship / Richard S. Lowry.
1996
PS1336 .L68 1996eb
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Title
"Littery man" [electronic resource] : Mark Twain and modern authorship / Richard S. Lowry.
Author
Lowry, Richard S.
ISBN
9780195356243 (electronic book)
0195102126
0195102126
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 177 p.)
Call Number
PS1336 .L68 1996eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.409
Summary
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.
He shows how, as one of our culture's first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
He shows how, as one of our culture's first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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He shows how, as one of our culture's first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
He shows how, as one of our culture's first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Mark Twain's Autobiographies of Authorship
1. "Littery Man": The Rhetoric of Authorship
2. Consuming Desire: The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It
3. A "Rightly Constructed Boy's Life": The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. "By the Book": Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Coda: "Speaking from the Grave."
1. "Littery Man": The Rhetoric of Authorship
2. Consuming Desire: The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It
3. A "Rightly Constructed Boy's Life": The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. "By the Book": Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Coda: "Speaking from the Grave."