Tracing the arc of Clemens's career from self-described unsanctified newspaper reporter to national author between 1862 and 1867, Caron reexamines the early and largely neglected writings especially the travel letters from Hawaii and the letters chronicling Clemens's trip from California to New York City. Caron shows how Clemens not only adjusted to but also challenged the guidelines of the newspapers and magazines for which he wrote, evolving as a comic writer who transmuted personal circumstances into literary art.
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“This is one of the most significant, innovative, yet incontrovertible books on Mark Twain in many years. I now feel that I have watched the professional birthing of Mark Twain.”
—Louis Budd, coeditor of A Companion to Mark Twain
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James E. Caron is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and coeditor of Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris.
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literary comedians, southwestern humor, original novelette, ruling chiefs, unsanctified newspaper reporter, comic flâneur, comic lineage, comic phrasing, professional comic writer, mock feuds, comic raillery, missionary pose, respectable reporter, comic narrator, civilized savagery, comic lecture, comic personae, comic abuse, comic victim, local column, playful malice, literary alter ego, comic violence, comic periodical, comic material Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mark Twain, Sam Clemens, Artemus Ward, San Francisco, Virginia City, Old Southwest, Bret Harte, William Wright, Dan De Quille, Golden Era, New York City, Charles Webb, Carson City, Backwoods Roarer, Gold Hill News, Gentleman Roarer, United States, Bloody Massacre, Kingdom of Hawaii, Charles Farrar Browne, Sacramento Union, Nevada Territory, Joe Goodman, Sut Lovingood, American Letters Browse Sample Pages:
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literary comedians, southwestern humor, original novelette, ruling chiefs, unsanctified newspaper reporter, comic flâneur, comic lineage, comic phrasing, professional comic writer, mock feuds, comic raillery, missionary pose, respectable reporter, comic narrator, civilized savagery, comic lecture, comic personae, comic abuse, comic victim, local column, playful malice, literary alter ego, comic violence, comic periodical, comic material Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mark Twain, Sam Clemens, Artemus Ward, San Francisco, Virginia City, Old Southwest, Bret Harte, William Wright, Dan De Quille, Golden Era, New York City, Charles Webb, Carson City, Backwoods Roarer, Gold Hill News, Gentleman Roarer, United States, Bloody Massacre, Kingdom of Hawaii, Charles Farrar Browne, Sacramento Union, Nevada Territory, Joe Goodman, Sut Lovingood, American Letters Browse Sample Pages:
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