Mark Twain's Aquarium (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
326
Utgivningsdatum
2018-11-15
Förlag
University of Georgia Press
Originalspråk
English
Medarbetare
Cooley, John (red.)
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 22 mm
Vikt
649 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
9:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780820355856

Mark Twain's Aquarium

The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910

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"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years. In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story. Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and invented games and plays for their amusement. For much of 1908, he was sending and receiving a letter a week from his angelfish. Cooley argues that Clemens saw cheerfulness and laughter as his only defenses against the despair of his late years. His enchantment with children, years before, had given birth to such characters as Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. In the frivolities of the Aquarium Club, it found its final expression. Cooley finds no evidence of impropriety in Clemens behavior with the girls. Perhaps his greatest crime, the editor suggests, was in idealizing them, in regarding them as precious collectibles. "He tried to trap them in the amber of endless adolescence," Cooley writes. "By pleading that they stay young and innocent, he was perhaps attempting to deny that, as they and the world continued to change, so must he."
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An important addition to recent biographical studies that deal with Clemens turbulent last decade. . . . Cooley's edition should prove to be a fundamental source for the study of Clemens's final years as well as for the examination of larger questions involving Victorian attitudes toward innocence and sexuality. -- J. Kent Calder * <i>Documentary Editing</i> * Filled with humor and pathos, and it ultimately presents a fascinating psychological glimpse of Mark Twain. -- Jackie Jones * <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> * The wealth of letters collected here are dotted with charm and wit and represent a genuine contribution to Twain scholarship. -- Charles C. Nash * <i>Library Journal</i> * Cooley's careful editing with appropriate introductions places the letters into a larger context of Twain's last five years and will help scholars see Twain's problematic relationship to the young women more clearly. -- E. Suderman * <i>Choice</i> *

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Samuel Clemens (Author) SAMUEL CLEMENS (18351910) remains one of America's most influential, prolific, and most widely read authors. John Cooley (Editor) JOHN COOLEY is a professor emeritus of English and environmental studies at Western Michigan University. His publications include How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women and Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers.