02650cam a2200409 a 4500 3890359 BJBSDDR 20240108110004.0 ta 900910s1991 ctua b 001 0deng 90048630 0300049501 9780300049503 DLC DLC DLC eng eng n-us--- PS 1342 C269m 1991 818/.409 Cardwell, Guy, 1905-2005 32814 The man who was Mark Twain : images and ideologies / Guy Cardwell. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1991. xv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-260) and index. The 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 In 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. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Political and social views. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Psychology. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 27845 Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Puntos de vista políticos y sociales 33620 Authors, American 19th century Psychology. Social problems in literature. Autores estadounidenses 4058 Siglo XIX Problemas sociales en la literatura 33618 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK 84882 84882 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PS 1342 C269m 1991 00000120140 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK