{"product_id":"mark-twain-and-male-friendship-the-twichell-howells-and-rogers-friendships-9780199964109","title":"Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships","description":"Biographies of America's greatest humorist abound, but none have charted the overall influence of the key male friendships that profoundly informed his life and work. Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, \u003cem\u003eMark Twain and Male Friendship \u003c\/em\u003epresents a welcome new perspective as it examines three vastly different friendships and the stamp they left on Samuel Clemens's life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith accessible prose informed by impressive research, the study provides an illuminating history of the friendships it explores, and the personal and cultural dynamic of the relationships. In the case of Twain and his pastor, Joseph Twichell, emphasis is put on the latter's role as mentor and spiritual advisor and on Twain's own waning sense of religious belonging. Messent then shifts gears to consider Twain's friendship with fellow author and collaborator William Dean Howells. Fascinating in its own right, this relationship also serves as a prism through which to view the literary marketplace of nineteenth-century America. A third, seemingly unlikely friendship between Twain and Standard Oil executive H.H. Rogers focuses on Twain's attitude toward business and shows how Rogers and his wife served as a surrogate family for the novelist after the death of his own wife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs he charts these relationships, Messent uses existing work on male friendship, gender roles, and cultural change as a framework in which to situate altered conceptions of masculinity and of men's roles, not just in marriage but in the larger social networks of their time. In sum, \u003cem\u003eMark Twain and Male Friendship\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a valuable new resource on the great novelist but also a lively cultural history of male friendship in nineteenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Messent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199964109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Messent \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNew Readings of the American Novel\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42920951873651,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":53.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_57c5123f-2143-4b56-a70f-051e1e99275d.jpg?v=1742382747","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/mark-twain-and-male-friendship-the-twichell-howells-and-rogers-friendships-9780199964109","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}