Laura's Other Books
Mark Twain in the Company of Women combines a biographical study of Clemens's life with his wife and their three daughters and contends that Clemens intentionally surrounded himself with women, and that his capacity to produce extended fictions had almost as much to do with the environment shaped by his female family as with the talent and genius of the writer himself. It was was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
"This book is to be applauded for its ambition, for its revisioning of the positive power of the 'company of women' on Clemens's career and for its careful and revealing historical research." – American Historical Review
"This book supports a valuable idea, that Samuel Leghorne Clemens's relationships with women and with feminism contributed to his creative life to an unmistakably large extent. Trombley unearths a stunning array of material on the intersection of 19th century American feminism and the 19th century's most important literary figure." – Nineteenth Century Literature
Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship contains thirteen essays which combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen.
Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston
Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge
