The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature Tapa dura - 2011

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LSU, USA, 2010. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. As New. As new- clean and crisp text. Cover has some minor wear. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 4. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; ISBN: 0807136913. ISBN/EAN: 9780807136911. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561048542. . 9780807136911

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Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 232 pages. 9.00x5.50x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New. 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."" In The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton challenges these long-held assumptions about Twain's advocacy of the Union cause, arguing that Clemens traveled a long and arduous path, moving from pro-slavery, secession, and the Confederacy to… Leer más

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LSU Press, 2011-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!