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The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature

The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature

Fulton, Joe B.

Hardcover

Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War

Literary CriticismCivil War Period (1850-1877)Regional: South

ISBN10: 0807136913
ISBN13: 9780807136911
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.75
Language: English

When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. After all, Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and his numerous speeches celebrating Abraham Lincoln, with their trenchant call for racial justice, inspired his crowning as the Lincoln of our Literature.

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