General Grant
(2011)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Kent State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781612771106 (electronic bk.) MWT11751821, 1612771106 (electronic bk.) 11751821
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
General Grant by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain presents conflicting essays and cultures. Matthew Arnold's 1886 essay on Grant praised the general and his posthumously published Memoirs, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing of their hero and country. Grant's friend and personal benefactor, Mark Twain, delivered a caustic rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut in April 1887. Thus Arnold became a pet prejudice of Twain's and may have served as an inspiration for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.In this volume, Twain's rejoinder is published in a correct text for the first time since the Hartford Courant printed his speech
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