@article{921577,
      recid = {921577},
      author = {Bird, John,},
      title = {Mark Twain in context /},
      pages = {xxxi, 392 pages :},
      abstract = {"Mark Twain In Context will provide the fullest  introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and  times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is  a collection of short, lively contributions covering a wide  range of topics on Twain's life and works. Twain lived  during a time of great change, upheaval, progress, and  challenge. He rose from obscurity to become what some have  called 'the most recognizable person on the planet.' Beyond  his contributions to literature, which were hugely  important and influential, he was a businessman, an  inventor, an advocate for social and political change, and  ultimately a cultural icon. Placing his life and work in  the context of his age reveals much about both Mark Twain  and America in the last half of the nineteenth century, the  twentieth century, and the first decades of the  twenty-first century"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/921577},
}