The images and ideologies Cardwell, Guy 1905-2005 creator text bibliography biography ctu New Haven Yale University Press c1991 1991 monographic eng

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xv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 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. 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 Guy Cardwell. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-260) and index. n-us--- Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Political and social views Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Psychology Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Puntos de vista políticos y sociales Authors, American 19th century Psychology Social problems in literature Autores estadounidenses Siglo XIX Problemas sociales en la literatura PS 1342 C269m 1991 818/.409 0300049501 9780300049503 90048630 DLC 900910 20240108110004.0 3890359 eng