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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing. The volume includes a chronology of Twain's life and a list of suggestions for further reading, to provide the students or general reader with sources for background as well as additional information.

Humorous stories, American --- Twain, Mark --- History and criticism. --- Twain, Mark, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Humorous stories, American - History and criticism. --- Twain (mark)

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Twain, Mark --- American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Comic [The ] in literature --- Comique [Le ] dans la littérature --- Groepsgevoel in de literatuur --- Group identity in literature --- Identité de groupe dans la littérature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Komische [Het ] in de literatuur --- Moi dans la littérature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Self in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Humorous stories, American --- Group identity in literature. --- Comic, The, in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Twain, Mark, --- Knowledge --- America. --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- America --- Humorous stories [American ] --- History and criticism --- Twain, Mark (1835-1910) --- Critique et interprétation

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This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.

American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man --- Littérature réaliste --- London, Jack, 1876-1916. The Call of the Wild --- Naturalism in literature --- Naturalisme dans la littérature --- Naturalisme in de literatuur --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. McTeague --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Naturalism in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Roman américain --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Roman américain --- Naturalisme dans la littérature --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- 19th century --- James, Henry --- Twain, Mark --- Crane, Stephen --- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty --- Sinclair, Upton Beall --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- American fiction - 19th century - Handbooks, manuals, etc --- AMERICAN FICTION --- NATURALISM IN LITERATURE --- REALISM IN LITERATURE --- JAMES (HENRY), 1843-1916 --- HOWELLS (WILLIAM DEAN) --- TWAIN (MARK) --- CRANE (STEPHEN) --- NORRIS (FRANK) --- CHOPIN (KATE), 1851-1904 --- 19th CENTURY --- PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE --- RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM, THE --- ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN --- RED BADGE OF COURAGE, THE --- McTEAGUE