This book is the first systematic, comprehensive gathering of the reviews (primarily in the United States and Britain) of Mark Twain's books published up until 1917. The reviews collected here give the reader an unfiltered sense of how Twain's books and his reputation looked to his audience at the time. In addition, by devoting attention to each of Twain's books, this volume moves away from the current, distorting emphasis on a small number of publications and thus provides a broader perspective on Twain's career.
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"...a genuine advance in our grasp of Twain's] contemporary reputation." To Wit
"...more than just a worthwhile book....Budd actively engages the past and the "lively and educative" function of reviewers and their reviews." Jason G. Horn, Mark Twain Forum
"Any historicist account of Twain...would benefit from a close look at Louis J. Budd's collection of contemporary reviews. The results of this wonderfully rewarding search are in part borne out in the equally rewarding Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews, a volume that should assist not only those students of Budd's who will endeavor to assay the biographical record for themselves but also most Twain scholars with an interest in Twain in his own time." Mississippi Quarterly
"...more than just a worthwhile book....Budd actively engages the past and the "lively and educative" function of reviewers and their reviews." Jason G. Horn, Mark Twain Forum
"Any historicist account of Twain...would benefit from a close look at Louis J. Budd's collection of contemporary reviews. The results of this wonderfully rewarding search are in part borne out in the equally rewarding Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews, a volume that should assist not only those students of Budd's who will endeavor to assay the biographical record for themselves but also most Twain scholars with an interest in Twain in his own time." Mississippi Quarterly
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This book is the first systematic, comprehensive gathering of the reviews (primarily in the United States and Britain) of Mark Twain's books published up until 1917. The reviews collected here give the reader an unfiltered sense of how Twain's books and his reputation looked to his audience at the time. In addition, by devoting attention to each of Twain's books, this volume moves away from the current, distorting emphasis on a small number of publications and thus provides a broader perspective on Twain's career.
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comic copy, moral altitudes, tramps abroad, only animal that blushes, quaint humor, peculiar humor, humorous literature, jumping frog, mark twain, professional humorist, twain himself, runaway negro, additional reviews, steamboat race, octavo pages, lecturing tour, great humorist, frog story, humorous work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Sawyer, New York, King Arthur, Huckleberry Finn, New Books, Christian Science, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Huck Finn, New Publications, Quaker City, Joan of Arc, Checklist of Additional Reviews, Tramp Abroad, More Tramps Abroad, United States, Saturday Review, Connecticut Yankee, Sherlock Holmes, South Africa, Artemus Ward, New Orleans, Hartford Times, Hartford Courant, New Novels, Following the Equator New!
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- Joan of Arc by Mark Twain on 30 pages
- Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain on 28 pages
- The Prince and the Pauper (Puffin Classics) by Mark Twain on 19 pages
- Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain on 14 pages
- Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain on 14 pages
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- Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America by Professor Beverly Lyon Clark on page 81, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World by Amanda Claybaugh on page 161, and Back Matter
- Negotiating Copyright: Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Martin T. Buinicki in Back Matter
- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain in Front Matter
- The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study by Peter Messent in Front Matter
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