{"product_id":"mark-twain-on-the-loose-bruce-michelson-9780870239670","title":"Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self","description":"Can we rediscover the wildness in Mark Twain's humor? Can we understand how that wildness helped make him a national legend and a key figure in the expression of an American self? Bruce Michelson writes about Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality, and as a myth. He shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from the very beginning to the end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation from every social, psychological, and artistic limit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe outrageous and anarchic sides of Twain play a vital role in his art. But these traits are undervalued even by his admirers, who often favor clean shapes and steady affirmations in Twain's writing - not the dangerous comic outbreak, or the deep yearning to free the self from every definition and confinement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReviewing works from a wide range of Twain's writings, Michelson brings to light those wild dimensions, their literary consequences, and their cultural importance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Michelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870239678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870239670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.02w x 0.73d","brand":"Bruce Michelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120403345663,"sku":"9780870239670","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9675880-228a-4e89-bc40-0f6f164a48b3.jpg?v=1687414126","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mark-twain-on-the-loose-bruce-michelson-9780870239670","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}