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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gary ScharnhorstPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Edition: First Edition, 1 ed. Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780817359959ISBN 10: 0817359958 Pages: 736 Publication Date: 30 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Abbreviations Chapter 1. The Growth of Mark Twain’s Early Reputation, 1871–1884 Interviews 1–20 Chapter 2. The “Twins of Genius” Tour, 1884–1885 Interviews 21–39 Chapter 3. The Best and Worst of Times, 1886–1895 Interviews 40–59 Chapter 4. Across North America, 1895 Interviews 60–81 Chapter 5. Across Australia, Asia, and Africa, 1895–1896 Interviews 82–120 Chapter 6. “Ambassador at Large” and Man of Letters, 1897–1901 Interviews 121–151 Chapter 7. Last Visit to Missouri, 1902 Interviews 152–170 Chapter 8. At Large, 1902–1906 Interviews 171–195 Chapter 9. “Dean of Humorists,” 1906–1907 Interviews 196–220 Chapter 10. Visit to Oxford, 1907 Interviews 221–235 Chapter 11. The Long Goodbye, 1907–1910 Interviews 236–258 Appendix IndexReviewsThis book provides vivid biographical data with an immediacy that brings to life everything from Mark Twain's personal idiosyncrasies and mannerisms to his central ideas on life and literature. . . . The material will delight and enlighten anyone interested in Mark Twain. Highly recommended. -CHOICE Twain gave more than 250 recorded interviews in his life-on trains, at home, onboard ship, and in bed, and always smoking. On his many reading tours, his method in a new place was to be open to all comers for the first twenty-four hours, and then to clam up. This led to some modern-sounding media scrums, with each reporter, in the age before tape recorders, paraphrasing away to his heart's content to produce wildly differing accounts of what was said. . . . Scharnhorst has painstakingly correlated the variants to give us texts as reliable as they can be. -Times Literary Supplement Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews goes a long way in recovering that side of the writer that has largely been lost to us. This is a major contribution to Twain scholarship and Scharnhorst's introduction is a model of clarity and precision. -Tom Quirk, editor of The Portable Mark Twain Next to Mark Twain's letters, the interviews with him constitute the most important body of texts that still have not come fully into print. We get in this book an entirely fresh, distinctive, informative body of autobiographical commentary; we also get a kind of running performance as Twain interacts with and postures for reporters (and their readers!), and continually reframes his public persona. -Louis J. Budd, author of Our Mark Twain Next to Mark Twain's letters, the interviews with him constitute the most important body of texts that still have not come fully into print. We get in this book an entirely fresh, distinctive, informative body of autobiographical commentary; we also get a kind of running performance as Twain interacts with and postures for reporters (and their readers!), and continually reframes his public persona. --Louis J. Budd, author of Our Mark Twain This book provides vivid biographical data with an immediacy that brings to life everything from Mark Twain's personal idiosyncrasies and mannerisms to his central ideas on life and literature. . . . The material will delight and enlighten anyone interested in Mark Twain. Highly recommended. --CHOICE Twain gave more than 250 recorded interviews in his life--on trains, at home, onboard ship, and in bed, and always smoking. On his many reading tours, his method in a new place was to be open to all comers for the first twenty-four hours, and then to clam up. This led to some modern-sounding media scrums, with each reporter, in the age before tape recorders, paraphrasing away to his heart's content to produce wildly differing accounts of what was said. . . . Scharnhorst has painstakingly correlated the variants to give us texts as reliable as they can be. --Times Literary Supplement Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews goes a long way in recovering that side of the writer that has largely been lost to us. This is a major contribution to Twain scholarship and Scharnhorst's introduction is a model of clarity and precision. --Tom Quirk, editor of The Portable Mark Twain Author InformationGary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books and editor of the journal American Literary Realism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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