Peter Messent

Mark Twain and Male Friendship

The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780199964109
• ISBN-10: 0199964106
• Artikelnr.: 36673010

Autorenporträt

Peter Messent is Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of several books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain and New Readings of the American Novel.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Male Friendship and Post Civil War America
Chapter 2. Clemens and Twichell
Chapter 3. Clemens, Twichell and Religion
Chapter 4. 'My Dear 'Owells': Clemens and Howells
Chapter 5. Clemens, Howells, and Realism
Chapter 6. Clemens, Manhood, the Rogers Friendship, and 'Which Was the Dream?'
Chapter 7. Clemens and Rogers: 'Both Members of This Club'
Coda: Friendship's Limits: Fathers and Daughters Notes
Index