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Mark Twain's Civil War : "the private history of a campaign that failed"
- Title
- Mark Twain's Civil War : "the private history of a campaign that failed" / edited by Benjamin Griffin, of the Mark Twain Project ; with maps by Mark Twain and illustrations by E. W. Kemble.
- Author
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Publication
- Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 20-266 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- viii, 177 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- "From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his own words, why he "didn't do anything") in the war; but the article was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address a growing curiosity about the nature of his brief military service. The complex political situation in Missouri during the early months of the war and Twain's genius for transforming life into fiction have tended to obstruct historical understanding of "The Private History"; interpretations of Samuel Clemens's enthusiastic enlistment, sedulous avoidance of combat, and abandonment of the rebellion have ranged from condemnation to celebration. Aided by Twain's notes and correspondence--transcribed and published here for the first time--Benjamin Griffin of UC Berkeley's Mark Twain Project offers a new and cogent analysis, particularly of Clemens's multiple revisions of his own war experience. A necessity for any Twain bookshelf, Mark Twain's Civil War sheds light on a great writer's changeable and challenging position on the deadliest of American conflicts."--
- Uniform Title
- Private history of a campaign that failed
- Alternative Title
- Private history of a campaign that failed
- Subjects
- United States
- Soldiers
- United States > Confederate States of America
- American Civil War > (United States : > 1861-1865)
- Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Fiction
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction
- History
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war
- 1861-1865
- War and literature
- Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The private history of a campaign that failed -- Explanatory notes -- Appendix A: Mark Twain's speech at Hartford, Connecticut, 2 October 1877 -- Appendix B: Absalom Grimes, "Mark Twain's campaign," 31 July 1886.
- Call Number
- JFC 20-266
- ISBN
- 9781597144780
- 1597144789
- LCCN
- 2019021570
- 40029555908
- OCLC
- 1083690460
- Author
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
- Title
- Mark Twain's Civil War : "the private history of a campaign that failed" / edited by Benjamin Griffin, of the Mark Twain Project ; with maps by Mark Twain and illustrations by E. W. Kemble.
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- 19TH CENT. FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF TWAIN'S BRIEF STINT IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY W/INTRO., COMMENTARY
- Chronological Term
- 1861-1865
- Added Author
- Griffin, Benjamin, 1968- editor.Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933, illustrator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029555908
- Research Call Number
- JFC 20-266