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Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years

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Victor Strandberg
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 186–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-186
Published: 01 March 2005
...Victor Strandberg By Karen Lystra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50. 2005 186 American Literature conflicted,hybridsubjectivitythatimplicitlycritiquestheliberalhuman- ist valorization of an autonomousselfhood’’thatonefindsinmaleauto...
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Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity; From Girl to Woman: American Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives

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Richard S. Lowry
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 184–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-184
Published: 01 March 2005
...: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years. By Karen Lystra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50. ‘‘I came to see the tragedy of Jean Clemens as the key to the story of Twain’s later life Karen Lystra writes in her preface. It is a key, she argues...
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The Wandering Bachelor: Irving, Masculinity, and Authorship

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Bryce Traister
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 111–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-111
Published: 01 March 2002
... of early national masculinity to the institution of marriage. E. Anthony Rotundo asserts that ‘‘marriage was a mark of full manhood, and manhood was a status to which males aspired while Karen Lystra argues that the ‘‘roman- tic love’’ performed in antebellum courtship rituals and marriage...
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