A Historical Guide to Mark TwainShelley Fisher Fishkin Oxford University Press, 2002 - 318 páginas The Historical Guides to American Authors is an interdisciplinary, historically sensitive series that combines close attention to the United States' most widely read and studied authors with a strong sense of time, place, and history. Placing each writer in the contect of the vibrant relationship between literature and contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance. they also include a capsule biography and illustrated chronology detailing important cultural events as they coincided with the author's life and works, while photographs and illustrations dating from the period capture the flavor of the author's time and social milieu. Equally accessible to students of literature and of life, the volumes offer a complete and rounded picture of each author in his or her America. -- back cover. |
Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
A Brief Biography | 13 |
TWAIN IN HIS TIME | 53 |
Illustrated Chronology | 257 |
Bibliographical Essay | 279 |
Contributors | 299 |
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