Getting to be Mark Twain
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Getting to be Mark Twain

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Getting to be Mark Twain

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Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally. But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind of Samuel Clemens. It was some time before he took full possession of the personality the world now recognizes. This is the story of the coming of age of Mark Twain. It begins in 1867, with Clemens stepping off the steamship Quaker City and almost immediately declaring himself "in a fidget to move." It comes to a close in 1871, with Clemens settling in Hartford. Mark Twain was substantially formed during the intervening years, as Clemens came East, gained fame and fortune with the publication of Innocents Abroad, courted and married Olivia Langdon, and established himself as a professional writer. Each of these steps represented a profound change in the former Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope as he sifted through the elements in his personality and began to assume the qualities we now associate with him. The tale that unfolds here shows how, through that process, the Mark Twain of the late 1860s became the Mark Twain of all time. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520348240
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface Getting Home
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Chapter One Surviving the Reformation
  10. Chapter Two Getting to Buffalo
  11. Chapter Three Coming to Anchor
  12. Chapter Four An End to Wandering
  13. Chapter Five Honeymoon
  14. Chapter Six Nesting
  15. Chapter Seven A Father’s Dying
  16. Chapter Eight Writing Roughing It
  17. Chapter Nine Lighting Out
  18. Chapter Ten Coming of Age in Elmira
  19. Afterword Getting To Be Mark Twain
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index