Mark Twain and the South

Mark Twain and the South
Author :
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0813191408
ISBN-13 : 9780813191409
Rating : 4/5 (409 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mark Twain and the South by : Arthur G. Pettit

Download or read book Mark Twain and the South written by Arthur G. Pettit and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.


Mark Twain and the South Related Books

Mark Twain and the South
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Arthur G. Pettit
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-01 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South
Mark Twain And The South
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Arthur G. Pettit
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-11 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South
Mark Twain's Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Mark Twain
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-12 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia
Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Alan Gribben
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: NewSouth Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In a radical departure from standard editions, the coming-of-age story that introduces Mark Twain’s two most enduring literary characters—Tom Sawyer and Huc
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Mark Twain
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-07 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of th