Mark Twain & the South

by Pettit, Arthur G.

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Title Statements

Full title :Mark Twain & the South / Arthur G. Pettit.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.
Edition:Paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication:Lexington
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 223 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0813191408, 9780813191409
oclc:ocm58916314
LC Classification:PS1342.P64
Dewey Decimal:818.409

Convinced & content: The Missouri years -- The most conceited ass in the territory -- Bless you, I'm reconstructed -- White feuds & Black Sambos -- Paradise lost: The Mississippi South revisited -- A lot of prejudiced chuckleheads: The white southerner in Huckleberry Finn -- Heroes or puppets? Clemens, John Lewis, & George Griffin -- Everything all busted up & ruined: The fate of brotherhood in Huckleberry Finn -- We ought to be ashamed of ourselves: Mark Twain's shifting color line, 1880-1910 -- The Black & white curse: Pudd'nhead Wilson & miscegenation -- From stage nigger to mulatto superman: The end of Nigger Jim & the rise of Jasper -- No peace, no brotherhood -- "The private history of a campaign that failed."

Subjects

États-Unis (Sud) -- Dans la littérature History Literature Literature and society Literature and society -- History -- 19… Littérature et société -- Histoire -- 1… Political and social views Race relations in literature Relations raciales dans la littérature Southern States Southern States -- In literature Twain, Mark