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Mark Twain and Male Friendship : The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships
ISBN: 9780195391169 | 0195391160
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/30/2009
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Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, Mark Twain and Male Friendship examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. With accessible prose informed by extensive research, the study begins by exploring the relationship between Mark Twain and his pastor Joseph Twichell, highlighting the latter's role as mentor and spiritual advisor as a way to explore the great author's conflicted religious beliefs. Messent then shifts gears to consider fellow... MORE
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Male Friendship and Post-Civil War America | p. 15 |
| Clemens and Twichell | p. 39 |
| Clemens, Twichell, and Religion | p. 63 |
| "My Dear 'Owells": Clemens and Howells | p. 83 |
| Clemens, Howells, and Realism | p. 105 |
| Clemens, Manhood, the Rogers Friendship, and "Which Was the Dream?" | p. 125 |
| Clemens and Rogers: "Both Members of This Club" | p. 141 |
Peter Messent is Professor of Modern American Literature School of American & Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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