Stahl J. D. Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe 9780820341125

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Автор: Stahl J. D.
Название: Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe
ISBN: 9780820341125
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литература: история и критика

История Америк

Общество и культура: общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 0820341126
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.32 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2012
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 12 black & white photographs
Размер: 216 x 140 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism,History of the Americas,Society & culture: general
Подзаголовок: Envisioning america through europe
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Often regarded as the quintessential American author, Mark Twain in fact mined his knowledge and experience of Europe as assiduously as he did his adventures on the Mississippi and in the American West. In this challenging and original study, J. D. Stall looks closely at various Twain works with European settings and traces the manner in which the great writer redefined European notions of class into American concepts of gender, identity, and society.Stahl not only examines such famous writings as The Innocents Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, and the Mysterious Stranger manuscripts but also treats a number of neglected works, including 1601, A Memorable Midnight Experience, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. In these writings, Stahl shows, Twain utilized the terms and symbols of European society and history to express his deepest concerns involving father–son relationships, the legitimation of parentage, female political and sexual power, the victimization of good women, and, ultimately, the desire to bridge or even destroy the barriers between the sexes. The exoticism of foreign culture—with its kings and queens, priests, and aristocrats—furnished Twain with some especially potent images of power, authority, and tradition. These images, Stahl argues, were plastic material in Mark Twains hands, enabling the writer to explore the uncertainties and ambiguities of gender in America: what it meant to be a man in Victorian America; what Twain thought it meant to be a woman; how men and women did, could, and should relate to each other.Stahls approach yields a wealth of fresh insights into Twains work. In discussing The Innocents Abroad, for example, he analyzes the emergence of the Mark Twain persona as part of a quest for cultural authority that often took the form of sexual role-playing. He also demonstrates that The Prince and the Pauper, even more strikingly than Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, embodies the writers central myth of orphaned sons searching for surrogate fathers. His reading of A Connecticut Yankee is a tour de force, uncovering the psychological contradictions in Twains political aspirations toward democratic equality.Stahls book is an important contribution to literary scholarship, informed by psychology, gender study, cultural theory, and traditional Twain criticism. It confirms Mark Twains debt to European culture even as it illuminates his re-envisioning of that culture in his own uniquely American way.

Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe, Stahl J. D.