Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic
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- Author: Peter Stoneley
- Date Published: December 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521102285
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This book traces the ways in which Mark Twain was formed by, and sought to manipulate, the ideology of gender. Peter Stoneley considers the range of Twain's writing, from classic novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to embittered autobiographical fragments. Twain's preoccupation with the nature and value of the "feminine" has long been recognized as a central feature of his writing. Stoneley goes beyond repeated generalizations to provide a detailed analysis; his book will be of interest to scholars and students of American literature, cultural history and gender studies.
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"Stoneley's examination of Twain's representations of women and of feminine culture reveals the wider contradictions of his work....More than this, Stoneley offers a necessary corrective to the customary schismatic presentation of the female and marks a useful continuation of inquiry into what Alfred Habegger has called, in a phrase from Henry James, the 'Woman Business' in nineteenth-century America." Ian F. A. Bell, Language & History
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521102285
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Mark Twain's early career
2. The Mississippi Valley
3. The Prince and the Pauper and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
4. A Horse's Tale and Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
5. Mark Twain and Mary Baker Eddy
6. 'To the Unborn Reader'
Conclusion
Note on the texts and list of abbreviations
Index.
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