Mark Twain and Money - Language, Capital, and Culture

This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life. Investigating Samuel Clemens's often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain's writing.

About the author

Henry B. Wonham is a professor of English at the University of Oregon and the author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale, Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism, and Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of Short Fiction. He is also the coeditor of Tales of Henry James, Second Edition.

Lawrence Howe is a professor of English and film studies at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority and the coeditor of Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon through Critical Lenses.

Summary

Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life

Product details

• Authors: Henry B. (EDT)/ Howe Wonham
• Assisted by: Lawrence Howe (Editor), Henry B. Wonham (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780817319441
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1944-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies