The reconstruction of Mark Twain [electronic resource] : how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature / Joe B. Fulton.
Fulton, Joe B., 1962-
2010
PS1342.S58 F853 2010eb
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Title The reconstruction of Mark Twain [electronic resource] : how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature / Joe B. Fulton.
Author Fulton, Joe B., 1962-
ISBN 9780807136911
0807136913
9780807138045 (electronic bk.)
0807138045 (electronic bk.)
Imprint Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 237 p.) : ill.
Call Number PS1342.S58 F853 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 818/.409
Summary When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist to fight for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. After all, Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), his essay "The United States of Lyncherdom"
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Conflicting worlds.
Available in Other Form Reconstruction of Mark Twain.
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