Mark Twain at Home How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction 1st Edition by Michael Kiskis, Gary Scharnhorst, Laura Skandera Trombley 0817389903 9780817389901

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ISBN 10: 0817389903 

ISBN 13: 9780817389901

Author: Michael J. Kiskis; Gary Scharnhorst; Laura Skandera Trombley

Twain scholar Michael J. Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction, Kiskis persuasively argues that not only was Mark Twain not, as many believe, “antidomestic,” but rather that home and family were the muse and core message of his writing.
 
Mark Twain was the child of a loveless marriage and a homelife over which hovered the constant specter of violence. Informed by his difficult childhood, orthodox readings of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn frame these canonical literary figures as nostalgic—autobiographical fables of heroic individualists slipping the bonds of domestic life.
 
Kiskis, however, presents a wealth of biographical details about Samuel Clemens and his family that reinterpret Twain’s work as a robust affirmation of domestic spheres of life. Among Kiskis’s themes are that, as the nineteenth century witnessed high rates of orphanhood and childhood mortality, Clemens’s work often depicted unmoored children seeking not escape from home but rather seeking the redemption and safety available only in familial structures. Similarly, Mark Twain at Home demonstrates that, following the birth of his first daughter, Twain began to exhibit in his writing an anxiety with social ills, notably those that affected children.
 
In vigorous and accessible descriptions of Twain’s life as it became reflected in his prose, Kiskis offers a compelling and fresh understanding of this work of this iconic American author. 

Table of contents:

Chapter One. Embracing Domesticity: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Chapter Two. Horace Bushnell and Huck: Christian Nurture and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chapter Three. Children of the Urban Poor: Tom Canty and Edward VI

Chapter Four. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Household and the Tragedy of Valet de Chambre

Conclusion: Sam Clemens’ Haunted Home

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