Kiskis, Michael J.,

Mark Twain at home : how family shaped Twain's fiction / Michael J. Kiskis ; foreword by Laura Skandera Trombley ; afterword by Gary Scharnhorst. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xv, 109 pages) - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Embracing domesticity: The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Horace Bushnell and Huck: Christian nurture and adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Children of the urban poor: Tom Canty and Edward VI -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's household and the tragedy of Valet de chambre -- Conclusion: Sam Clemens' haunted home.



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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Homes and haunts.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Family.


Home in literature.
Families in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS1342 / .M375 2016