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(0)Joe B. Fulton
2) The reconstruction of Mark Twain: how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature
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Beginning with Clemens's youth in Missouri, Fulton tracks the writer's transformation through the turbulent Civil War years as a southern-leaning reporter in Nevada and San Francisco to his raucous burlesques written while he worked as a Washington correspondent during the impeachment crises of 1867-1868. Fulton concludes with the writer's emergence as the country's satirist-in-chief in the postwar era. By explaining the relationship between the author's...
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"Fulton analyzes Twain's voluminous marginalia in the copies of Macaulay's History of England, Carlyle's The French Revolution, and Lecky's Spirit of Rationalism and England in the Eighteenth Century, available to Twain in the library of Quarry Farm, the New York retreat where the novelist and his family routinely spent their summers. Comparing these marginal notes to entries in Twain's writing journal, the manuscript of Connecticut Yankee, and the...