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03233aam a2200433 i 4500 001 11232CDA933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 220911t20232023nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2022032252 020 $a 1032406577 020 $a 9781032406572 020 $a 1032188154 020 $a 9781032188157 035 $a (OCoLC)1344544350 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS1337.3 M33 2023 100 1 $a Machor, James L., $e author. 245 14 $a The mercurial Mark Twain(s) : $b reception history, audience engagement, and iconic authorship / $c James L. Machor. 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 337 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge research in American literature and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Twain's early reception : the humorist and more -- Notorious celebrity : from Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn -- Vintage variations and new Mark Twains, 1889-1899 -- The final decade : from celebrity polemicist to mercurial icon -- Twain's early afterlives, 1910-1939 -- Old Twains, new Twains, and fresh controversies : race, myth, adaptations, and the Cold War, 1940-1959 -- Texts, politics, and hypercanonization : corpus, canon, and significances in the 1960s and 1970s -- Ever-changing marks : shaping Twain by century's end. 520 $a "Who was Mark Twain? Was he the genial author of two beloved boys books, the white-haired and white-suited avuncular humorist, the realistic novelist, the exposer of shams, the author repressed by bourgeois values, or the social satirist whose later writings embody an increasingly dark view? In light of those and other conceptions, the question we need to ask is not who he was but how did we get so many Mark Twains? The Mercurial Mark Twains(s): Reception History and Iconic Authorship provides answers to that question by examining the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by his audiences. Drawing on archival records of responses from common readers, reviewer reactions, analyses by Twain scholars and critics, and film and television adaptations, this study provides the first wide-ranging, fine-grained historical analysis of Twain's reception in both the public and private spheres, from the 1860s until the end of the twentieth century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $x History. $x History. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $x Appreciation. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $x Public opinion. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $x In popular culture. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Humorists, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Machor, James L.. $t Mercurial Mark Twain(s) $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 $z 9781003256373 $w (DLC) 2022032253 830 0 $a Routledge research in American literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013456.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=11232CDA933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search