Contributor
De Koster, Katie, 1948-
Imprint:San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c1996.
Description215 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Mark Twain: a biography. - The first continental American literature (1946) / Bernard De Voto. - Lessons in extravagance at the Comstock Lode (1978) / Warren Hinckle and Fredric Hobbs. - An interpreter of American character (1897) / Charles Miner Thompson. - Mark Twain as prospective classic (1898) / Theodore de Laguna. - A call to authorship (1986) / Joseph Twichell. - Pure American English (1920) / Brander Matthews. - A serious humorist (1910) / Simeon Strunsky. - An unfulfilled genius (1920) / Van Wyck Brooks. - Who owns the uncrowned king? (1925) / Upton Sinclair. - The great critical controversy (1958) / Philip S. Foner. - Twain's inescapable disillusionment (1935) / Owen Wister. - Using the vernacular for humor (1962) / Henry Nash Smith. - Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and "The Higher Goofyism" (1964) / C. Merton Babcock. - Twain's twinning (1989) / Susan Gillman. - A short summary of some of Twain's sources (1961) / Edward Wagenknecht. - A turning point in American literature (1991) / Gerald Parshall. - Three coherent elements in Huckleberry Finn (1962) / Henry Nash Smith. - The river controls Huckleberry Finn (1950) / T. S. Eliot. - Huckleberry Finn and censorship (1995) / Lance Morrow. - A classic of American reform literature (1958) / Charles L. Sanford. - Clemens, Twain, and Morgan are not the same man (1993) / Lewis A. Lawson. - The power of the mysterious in A Connecticut Yankee (1976) / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Camelot's castle in Connecticut (1964) / Hamlin Hill. - The absurdity of man-made differentials (1959) / Langston Hughes.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205) and index.
