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• W154712365 abstract "MARK TWAIN'S PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTS on Austen and work are well known to Austen readers. Combining humor and criticism, Twain's remarks suggest he had little love of Austen's work, and he is so consistently disparaging that we can't dismiss his claims as merely the momentary effects of a cantankerous disposition. His disdain is perplexing given Austen's literary reputation today, for it invites us to consider the possibility that someone's judgment, either his or ours, is simply wrong. His judgment is also curious, given the fact that a comic sequence in his Life on the Mississippi is clearly indebted to an often-discussed scene in Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Either consciously or unconsciously, this man who relegated Austen to the lowest rung on the literary ladder has paid the highest compliment a writer can pay to a fellow artist by adapting work to suit his own ends. Evidence indicates Twain knew and appreciated more of Austen than he let on in public. Twain's longest sustained pronouncement on the art of Austen occurs in an unpublished fragment entitled simply Jane written perhaps in 1905. In it, Twain writes in reading Austen, I feel like a barkeeper entering the Kingdom of Heaven (qtd. in Auerbach 110). feels discomfort and a keen sense of not belonging: He [Twain's bartender] not want to associate with them [the characters in Austen's world]; he not like their gait, their style, their ways; their talk enrage (111). Twain goes on in the essay to focus primary attention on Sense and Sensibility: I am doing 'Sense and Sensibility' now, and have accomplished the first third of it--not for the first time (112). Like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility is an Austen book that Twain can't stand to read yet can't help reading--or at least starting--more than once. In analysis of Twain's observations on Sense and Sensibility, Emily Auerbach suggests that far from being an Austen hater, Twain actually 'got' her (116). She notes affinities between the two can be found in the fact that are irreverent, willing to [take] on clergymen, aristocrats, and 'superiors' of all sorts, skewering them in just a few ironic words (119). Auerbach also argues that both believed deeply in the power of their humor to reveal deeper truths about human behavior (119). Among Twain's varied comments on Sense and Sensibility in this 1905 fragment is a brief observation about the Dashwoods: Mr Dashwood, gentleman, is a coarse and cold-hearted money-worshipper; his Fanny is coarse and mean. Neither of them ever says or does a pleasant thing (qtd. in Auerbach 115). His reading of the first third of the novel--not for the first time--has gotten him through the famous scene of Chapter 2 in Sense and Sensibility in which Fanny Dashwood talks husband John out of bestowing an inheritance on his half-sisters and stepmother. Interestingly, this scene has a parallel in Twain's Life on the Mississippi, written in 1883, that is more than coincidental. Chapter 2 of Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully comic portrayal of greed and self delusion. In it John Dashwood's father secures from his son a promise to take care of his stepmother and half-sisters upon the father's death, which occurs immediately. Dashwood mulls over the promise, determines that four thousand a year should be sufficient for the women, then perhaps astonished at his generosity, decides that three thousand would be liberal and handsome (5). establishes quickly his unenthusiastic sense of duty as well as his own greedy nature. However, Dashwood's greed looks like downright charity beside that of his wife Fanny, who on hearing of husband's intentions immediately begins to whittle away at his planned bequest. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree; then Mrs. …" @default.
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• W154712365 title "The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Twain's Imitation of Austen" @default.
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