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Tom Quirk's study provides a comprehensive analysis of the comic genius and narrative originality that makes Mark Twain's short fiction a cornerstone of the American literary tradition. Quirk's presentation of Twain's career as a writer of short fiction is complemented with selections of Twain's essays rounds out this balanced and informative work.
Quirk's aim in Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction is to provide a "descriptive account of Twain's imaginative energies and his literary development as they are revealed in his short fiction." His selections of Twain's writing provide excellent examples of the literary energy that Quirk so vividly describes.
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Author Biography
Tom Quirk is professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on Texts and Abbreviations | |
| The Short Fiction | |
| The Early Years, 1863-1873: Oral Tradition and the Individual Talent | p. 20 |
| The Middle Years, 1874-1890: Literary Respectability and Social Responsibility | p. 56 |
| The Late Years, 1891-1910: False Starts and Flights of Fancy | p. 86 |
| The Writer | |
| Report to the Buffalo Female Academy | p. 132 |
| Reply to the Editor of "The Art of Authorship" | p. 136 |
| Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses | p. 138 |
| How to Tell a Story | p. 150 |
| William Dean Howells | p. 155 |
| The Critics | |
| William Dean Howells | p. 167 |
| Louis J. Budd | p. 170 |
| Don Florence | p. 177 |
| Walter Blair | p. 184 |
| Gregg Camfield | p. 202 |
| Susan K. Harris | p. 208 |
| Chronology | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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