Pettit, Arthur G. Mark Twain and the South ISBN 13: 9780813113104

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The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death.

Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.

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About the Author:
Arthur G. Pettit was assistant professor of history at Colorado College.
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"A splendidly researched and clearly written study. No one should try to lecture on or write about Mark Twain's treatment of blacks without reading it."―American Literature

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  • PublisherUniv Pr of Kentucky
  • Publication date1974
  • ISBN 10 0813113105
  • ISBN 13 9780813113104
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages240

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