MarkTwain马克吐温英文介绍
The period ranging from 1865 to l914 has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature, especially American fiction, from the 1850s onwards.
Age: 18----worked as a printer in New York City (joined the printers union, and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school)
Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and it paved the way to Modernism.
His pen name Mark Twain came froMississippi riverboats. Twain is an archaic term for “two”. Mark Twain means that “The water is 12 feet deep and it is safe to pass”.
Brief introduction
Pen name :Mark Twain Real name :Samuel Langhorne Clemens Birthday : November 30, 1835 Date of death : April 21, 1910 status: an American author , humorist and orator Achievement: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel,
Life experience(source of
name)
Mark Twain was once the pen name of one captain Isaiah Sellers, who used to write river news for News Orleans Picayune. One day young Samuel wrote a rude and crude satire which was leveled at Captain Isaiah Sellers. And in his satire he made rude game of his reminiscences. This satire was published in the New Orleans True Delta. And Isaiah Sellers was deeply wounded. He never published another paragraph and never used his pen name since then. He died in1869, and Samuel was very regretted. So he used the pen name “Mark Twain” to write.
Instead of thinking about the irrational, the imaginative, realists touched upon social and political realities and pressures in the post-Civil War society. Three dominant figures are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn （ the latter often called “The Great American Novel”. ） Rank : “The true father of American national literature.” ”The greatest American humorist of his age”
Life experience
Age: 11----his father died
Age: 15----worked as a typesetter and contributor (of articles and humorous sketches for a newspaper his brother owned)
Family background
Birthplace : Florida Family : a Virginian family Sibling : Twain was the sixth of seven children,
but only three of his siblings survived childhood Father : a local lawyer Mother :a Virginian
Life experience(source of name)
Twain used different pen names before deciding on “Mark Twain”. He signed humorous and imaginative sketches as “Josh”. Additionally, he used “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass” for a series of humorous letters.