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100 1 $aCaron, James Edward,$d1952-
245 10 $aMark Twain :$bunsanctified newspaper reporter /$cJames E. Caron.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$cc2008.
300 $axiv, 448 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aMark Twain and his circle series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [413]-444) and index.
505 0 $aAct 1. The Comic Lineage of Washoe Mark Twain -- Scene 1. Backwoods Civility; or, How the Roarer Became a Gentleman -- Scene 2. The Backwoods Roarer and the "Literary Comedian" -- Scene 3. The Communal Function of Comic Violence -- Act 2. Washoe Mark Twain -- Scene 1. Sam Clemens Clowning on the Comstock -- Scene 2. Playing with Comic Dynamite -- Act 3. Mark Twain in San Francisco -- Scene 1. "Strike Up Higher" in the Periodical World -- Scene 2. Satire and the Bohemian Journalist -- Scene 3. American "Flaneurs" -- Scene 4. "Flanerie" That Subverts the News -- Scene 5. "Foremost of the Merry Gentlemen of the California Press" -- Act 4. Correspondent on Assignment -- Scene 1. Work and Leisure in Two Cultures -- Scene 2. Mark Twain's Comic Raid on the Kingdom of Hawai'i -- Scene 3. Writing Travel Letters -- Act 5. Correspondent at Large -- Scene 1. American Travel Letters -- Scene 2. Comic Performance -- Afterword: The Clown and the Satirist.
520 $a"A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, then in the travel letters from Hawaii and letters chronicling his trip from California to New York City"--Provided by publisher.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$xCriticism and interpretation.
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600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$vCorrespondence.
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650 0 $aAuthors, American$y19th century$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aHumorists, American$y19th century.
650 0 $aHumorists, American$y19th century$vBiography.
651 0 $aUnited States$xDescription and travel.
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