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Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive Introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particular attention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins his prose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of the recent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises the contentious and important debates about his literary and cultural position. The guide to further reading will help those who wish to extend their research and critical work on the author. This book will be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for the first time.

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The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the postwar period in the San Francisco Bay area as defined by poets such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan and William Everson, and then as it blossomed into the literary excitements associated with the Beat movement and with writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Individual chapters are devoted to major writers of the period and to their involvement with social and political change during the Cold War era. Davidson's penultimate chapter deals with the largely neglected context of women writers during this period, and the final chapter deals with poetry since 1965.

Poetry --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- San Francisco --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- 20th century --- Snyder, Gary Sherman --- Criticism and interpretation --- Whalen, Philip Glenn --- Duncan, Robert Edward --- Spicer, Jack --- Ginsberg, Allen --- Kerouac, Jack --- Levertov, Denise --- Rexroth, Kenneth --- McClure, Michael --- Hass, Robert --- Everson, William --- Kyger, Joanne --- Grahn, Judy --- DiPrima, Diane --- Hejinian, Lyn --- San Francisco [California] --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Authors, American --- History and criticism. --- Homes and haunts --- In literature. --- American authors --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- AMERICAN LITERATURE --- SNYDER (GARY) --- WHALEN (PHILIP) --- DUNCAN (ROBERT) --- SPICER (JACK) --- BEAT GENERATION --- CALIFORNIA --- SAN FRANCISCO --- 20th CENTURY --- ETATS-UNIS