Title Mark Twain : unsanctified newspaper reporter / James E. Caron

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) : illustrations Series Mark Twain and his circle series Mark Twain and his circle series. Contents Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prologue for a Comic Performance; Act One; Scene One: Backwoods Civility; or, How the Roarer Became a Gentleman; Scene Two: The Backwoods Roarer and the "Literary Comedian"; Act Two; Scene One: Sam Clemens Clowning on the Comstock; Scene Two: Playing with Comic Dynamite; Act Three; Scene One: "Strike Up Higher" in the Periodical World; Scene Two: Satire and the Bohemian Journalist; Scene Three: American "Flâneurs"; Scene Four: "Flânerie" That Subverts the News; Scene Five: "Foremost of the Merry Gentlemen of the California Press"; Act Four Scene One: Work and Leisure in Two CulturesScene Two: Mark Twain's Comic Raid on the Kingdom of Hawai'i; Scene Three: Writing Travel Letters; Act Five; Scene One: American Travel Letters; Scene Two: Comic Performance; Afterword: The Clown and the Satirist; Works Cited; Index Summary "A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, then in the travel letters from Hawaii and letters chronicling his trip from California to New York City"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-444) and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Journalism Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Correspondence. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge SUBJECT Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast Twain, Mark 1835-1910 gnd Twain, Mark -- Briefe. idsbb Twain, Mark -- Reisen. idsbb Twain, Mark -- Publizistik. idsbb Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- analys och tolkning. sao Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- brev. sao Twain, Mark. swd Correspondence (Twain, Mark) fast Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence Humorists, American -- 19th century Humorists, American -- 19th century -- Biography LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Authors, American Humorists, American Journalism Travel Humor Journalismus Reisejournalismus SUBJECT United States -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139993 Subject United States Genre/Form personal correspondence. Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Personal correspondence Biographies. Personal correspondence. Biographies. Correspondance privée. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780826266279 0826266274

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