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- W68235053 abstract "The Gilded Age is Mark Twain's most Dickensian work. Full of grotesque originals like Colonel Sellers, who is often compared with Mr. Micawber, the novel is a mixture of realism and fable. It criticizes bureaucracy, plutocracy, corruption, and human cruelty. In part a parody of sentimental and sensational imitations of Dickens, it nonetheless depends on the same qualities of performance and manipulation of audience that Dickens so fully developed. Although ambivalent towards Dickens's fiction, Twain did not consistently condemn it in the way he did the fiction of Austen, Eliot, and James. To some extent he may have realized that he was working in a tradition that included Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Dickens himself, and that thrived not on representation or reflection but on authorial performance and creation of a fictive world at some remove from reality. Unlike Dickens, however, Twain avoided contemporary settings for his fiction, which is generally set either in a distant European past or on the Mississippi River of his ante? bellum childhood. The Sellers novels are exceptions, and perhaps because The Gilded Age takes place largely in post-Civil War America Twain most fully frees it from the fetters of realism. Out of frontier tall tales and Dickensian exaggeration, he creates a world loosely corresponding to social reality but vividly suggesting real American fantasies. To develop this world Clemens uses several tactics. He opens with a preface and first chapter that are full of incongruities and that pull the book away from representational conventions. He counterpoints his own histrionic chapters against Charles Dudley Warner's straighter romance, which provides an alternative voice and motifs that can be played for thematic parallels even while being burlesqued. He deploys his characters in performances that are vehicles of satire but also phenomena in a Barnum extravaganza. The methods," @default.
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