On Mark Twain

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Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady
Duke University Press, 1987 - 303 pages
From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

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Contents

Mark Twains Indebtedness to John Phoenix 1941
15
Mark Twain as Translator from the German 1941
31
Landscape Conventions
53
The Child as Goddess 1959
71
The Composition and Structure of Tom Sawyer 1961
91
The Sober Affirmation of Mark Twains Hadleyburg 1962
105
The Me and the Machine 1970
127
The Final Phase 1973
149
The Meaning of A Connecticut Yankee 1978
185
The Lonesomeness of Huckleberry Finn 1981
209
The Reprobate Elect in The Innocents Abroad 1982
223
The Victorian of Southwestern Humor 1982
241
How Mark Twain Survived Sam Clemens Reformation 1983
259
Mark Twain and the Endangered Family 1985
277
Index
295
Copyright

The Form
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