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Mark Twain

Mark Twain. 1835-1910. Samuel Langhorne Clemens. important! Contributions to American literature Write successfully in the vernacular Successfully infuse comedy (humor and satire) Gave American literature a distinctly American voice while rendering literature funny for the first time.

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Mark Twain

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  1. Mark Twain 1835-1910

  2. Samuel Langhorne Clemens • important! • Contributions to American literature • Write successfully in the vernacular • Successfully infuse comedy (humor and satire) • Gave American literature a distinctly American voice while rendering literature funny for the first time

  3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens • B. Missouri 1835 • Number of pursuits: • Printer • Newspaper reporter • Miner • Volunteer for Confederate cause (short, at outbreak of war) • **Steamboat pilot on Mississippi

  4. Mark Twain • “two fathoms deep” • “all is well” • Feb 3, 1863 signed an article as Mark Twain

  5. Huck Finn (1885) • first distinctly American Novel: • Subject • Setting • Treatment of social themes • Use of vernacular

  6. American Literature in the 19th c. • Romanticism (Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson) • Nostalgia, idealism, beauty in nature, expression of freedom by individual • CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) • Country damaged • Nation whole? • Frontier-West • Darwin (1859), scientific method • Industrial Revolution

  7. American Literature in the 19th c. • Realism (Twain, Dickinson, Crane, Wharton, Jewett) • Truth! • “slice of life” approach • Seeks to portray life accurately and without authorial embellishment • Relate the narrative with an eye towards honesty • Unpopular with readers • Dared to relate the truth, however distasteful

  8. Picaresque • Features a character who is traveling • Learn as they travel, maturing and developing

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