Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict and CultureSusan Gillman, Forrest G. Robinson Duke University Press, 1990 M07 20 - 262 páginas This collection seeks to place Pudd’nhead Wilson—a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain’s—in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors’ introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd’nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender. In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, and dead ends in the text itself. Such wrinkles and gaps, the authors find, are the symptoms of an inconclusive, even evasive, but culturally illuminating struggle to confront and resolve difficult questions bearing on race and sex. Such fresh, intellectually enriching perspectives on the novel arise directly from the broad-based interdisciplinary foundations provided by the participating scholars. Drawing on a wide variety of critical methodologies, the essays place the novel in ways that illuminate the world in which it was produced and that further promise to stimulate further study. Contributors. Michael Cowan, James M. Cox, Susan Gillman, Myra Jehlen, Wilson Carey McWilliams, George E. Marcus, Carolyn Porter, Forrest Robinson, Michael Rogin, John Carlos Rowe, John Schaar, Eric Sundquist |
Contenido
Introduction | vii |
Puddnhead Wilson Revisited | 1 |
The Sense of Disorder in Puddnhead Wilson | 22 |
Mark Twain and Homer Plessy | 46 |
The Natal Autograph in Puddnhead Wilson | 73 |
Race Science and the Law in Puddnhead Wilson | 86 |
Race and Sex in Puddnhead Wilson | 105 |
Roxanas Plot | 121 |
Murder Money and Manners in Puddnhead Wilson | 137 |
Political Theology and Theological Politics in Puddnhead Wilson | 155 |
Puddnhead Wilson on Democratic Governance | 177 |
Doubled Divided and Crossed Selves in Puddnhead Wilson or Mark Twain as Cultural Critic in His Own Times and Ours | 190 |
Some of the Ways of Freedom in Puddnhead Wilson | 211 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict and Culture Susan Gillman,Forrest G. Robinson Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture Susan Kay Gillman,Forrest Glen Robinson Vista de fragmentos - 1990 |
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