When Confederate Forces Fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of
“Through a mixture of careful research and imaginative analysis, Fulton creates a compelling re-vision of Twain as an artist.”—American Literary Realism?“With the skill of Sherlock Holmes at his best,
Proceeding from Twain's observation that a writer of realism becomes "like another conscience" for readers, the author uses recent criticism and Mikhail Bakhtin's neglected early theories of ethics an
Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began his long writing career penning satirical articles for