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Littery Man: Mark Twain & Modern Authorship

Littery Man: Mark Twain & Modern Authorship

Lowry, Richard S.

Hardcover

Series: Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0195102126
ISBN13: 9780195102123
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 27 1996
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens straddled the conflicts between culture and commerce that characterized the era he named the Gilded Age. In Littery Man, Richard Lowry examines how Twain used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an autobiography of authorship, a narrative of his own claims to literary authority at that moment when the American Writer emerged as a profession. Drawing on wide range of cultural genres--popular boys' fiction, childbearing manuals, travel narratives, autobiography, and criticism and fiction of the period--Lowry reconstructs how Twain participated in remaking the literary into a powerful social category of representation. He shows how, as one of our cultures first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of modern identity in a mass-mediated society. Littery Man will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

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