02377cam a2200361 a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160070003000330080041000360100017000770200015000940200018001090400023001270410008001500430012001580500024001700820013001941000030002072450073002372600048003103000046003585040064004045050290004685200892007586000057016506000041017076000030017486000071017786500049018496500035018986500041019336500041019743890359BJBSDDR20240108110004.0ta900910s1991 ctua b 001 0deng  a 90048630  a0300049501 a9780300049503 aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng aeng an-us---14aPS 1342bC269m 199100a818/.4091 aCardwell, Guy,d1905-200514aThe man who was Mark Twain :bimages and ideologies /cGuy Cardwell. aNew Haven :bYale University Press,cc1991. axv, 267 pages :billustrations ; c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-260) and index.0 aThe Critical Battleground An Adam from the Western Garden Affines and Business Art and Money Olivia, Gender, and Taste Sexuality and the Clemenses Impotence and Pedophilia Tendentious Jokes Racism and Huckleberry Finn A World Turned Upside Down Myths, Paradoxes, and the Bourgeois Hero aIn this revisionist biography of Mark Twain, Cardwell redraws the diverging portraits of public figure and private man, and seeks to explain the ideological biases that have shaped the iconographic estimation of Twain as an American eidolon. He argues that critics displaced the man who was Mark Twain with an image they constructed to serve their own views of American culture. Examining Clemens' attitudes toward pastoralism and technology, art and money, frontier and genteel societies, and gender, sexuality, and race, Cardwell finds not simply a different figure form the mythic Twain but a deeply troubled man. He presents Twain as a "gravely flawed American talent," a "culturally marginal man," and often "bitter, destructive, sadistic" in his writing and private life. Other topics include W.D. Howells' role in the cultural apothesis of Twain as the "Lincoln of Our Literature.10aTwain, Mark,d1835-1910xPolitical and social views.10aTwain, Mark,d1835-1910xPsychology.14aTwain, Mark, d1835-1910 14aTwain, Mark, d1835-1910 xPuntos de vista políticos y sociales  0aAuthors, Americany19th centuryxPsychology. 0aSocial problems in literature. 4aAutores estadounidenses ySiglo XIX  4aProblemas sociales en la literatura