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<p><p>&#160;<p>in <i>mark Twain And The American West</i>, Joseph Coulombe Explores How Mark Twain Deliberately Manipulated Contemporary Conceptions Of The American West To Create And Then Modify A Public Image That Eventually Won Worldwide Fame. He Establishes The Central Role Of The Western Region In The Development Of A Persona That Not Only Helped Redefine American Manhood And Literary Celebrity In The Late Nineteenth Century, But Also Produced Some Of The Most Complex And Challenging Writings In The American Canon.<p>coulombe Sheds New Light On Previously Underappreciated Components Of Twain&rsquo;s Distinctly Western Persona. Gathering Evidence From Contemporary Newspapers, Letters, Literature, And Advice Manuals, Coulombe Shows How Twain&rsquo;s Persona In The Early 1860s As A Hard-drinking, Low-living Straight-talker Was An Implicit Response To Western Conventions Of Manhood. He Then Traces The Author&rsquo;s Movement Toward A More Sophisticated Public Image, Arguing That Twain Characterized Language And Authorship In The Same Manner That He Described Western Men&#58; Direct, Bold, Physical, Even Violent. In This Way, Twain Capitalized Upon Common Images Of The West To Crea

Author

Joseph L Coulombe; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826214614

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Western