Mark Twain & the SouthArthur G. Pettit.
Mark Twain and the South
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, (c)1974.
- 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Convinced and content : the Missouri years -- The most conceited ass in the territory -- Bless you, I'm reconstructed -- White feuds and Black Sambos -- Paradise lost : the Mississippi South revisited -- A lot of prejudiced chuckleheads : the White Southerner in Huckleberry Finn -- Heroes or puppets? : Clemens, John Lewis, and George Griffin -- Everything all busted up and ruined : the fate of brotherhood in Huckleberry Finn -- We ought to be ashamed of ourselves : Mark Twain's shifting color line, 1880-1910 -- The Black and White curse : Pudd'nhead Wilson and miscegenation -- From stage nigger to mulatto superman : the end of Nigger Jim and the rise of Jasper -- No peace, no brotherhood -- Appendix: "The private history of a campaign that failed."
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Political and social views.
Literature and society--History--Southern States--19th century. Race relations in literature.