James L. Machor

The Mercurial Mark Twain(s) (eBook, ePUB)

Reception History, Audience Engagement, and Iconic Authorship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Mercurial Mark Twains(s) examines the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by common readers, reviewers, and Twain scholars, as well as film and television adaptations. This study provides the first fine-grained historical analysis of nearly 150 years of his reception in both the public and private spheres

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000814200
• Artikelnr.: 67384418

Autorenporträt

James L. Machor is an Emeritus Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (2011) and Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America (1987). He has edited Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response (1993) and co-edited Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (2001) and New Directions in American Reception Study (2008). He is also the senior co-editor of Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the peer-reviewed journal of the Reception Study Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Part 1

Chapter 1: Twain's Early Reception: The Humorist and More

Chapter 2: Notorious Celebrity: From Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn

Chapter 3: Vintage Variations and New Mark Twains, 1889-1899

Chapter 4: The Final Decade: From Celebrity Polemicist to Mercurial Icon

Part 2

Chapter 5: Twain's Early Afterlives, 1910-1939

Chapter 6: Old Twains, New Twains, and Fresh Controversies: Race, Myth, Adaptations, and the

Cold War, 1940-1959

Chapter 7: Texts, Politics, and Hypercanonization: Corpus, Canon, and Significances in the

1960s and 1970s

Chapter 8: Ever-Changing Marks: Shaping Twain by Century's End

Notes

Index

Rezensionen

Numerous scholars have chronicled how book reviewers and other cultural commentators responded to Twain and his works both before and after his death in 1910. Recently, there has been increasing interest in how less-elite readers responded to Twain's writings and in how Twain's popular and critical reputations were forged in the 20th century. Prominent examples of such scholarship are Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers, ed. by R. Kent Rasmussen (2013); Robert McParland's Mark Twain's Audience: A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain (2014); and Joe Fulton's Mark Twain Under Fire: Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851-2015 (2016). Machor wisely does not attempt a comprehensive study of Twain's reception, instead presenting an extremely readable, broad overview of how Twain and his books (excluding serialized versions, translations, and pirated editions) have been received by particular audiences, chiefly American and British. Incorporating many more of the fan letters written to Twain during his lifetime than previous scholars have, convincingly refuting a number of previous scholarly assertions, and offering persuasive analyses, this study should prove very useful for years to come. Summing Up: Highly Recommended.

--C. Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha