Susan K. Harris
Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902
About the Author
Susan K. Harris is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at The University of Kansas. She is the author of several books on nineteenth-century literature, including The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mary Twain.
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Works by Susan K. Harris
Associated Works
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Complete Text With Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays (New Riverside Edi (2000) — Editor — 197 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Antioch College (BA)
Stanford University (MA)
Cornell University (MA, PhD) - Occupations
- English Professor, Penn State University
English professor, University of Kansas - Organizations
- Modern Language Association
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
l9th-Century American Women Writers Study Group
Mark Twain Circle of America
American Studies Association - Nationality
- USA
- Map Location
- USA
Members
Reviews
An interesting window into the early private lives of Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon which can't quite show very much about Olivia but does show that Samuel Clemens in pursuit of a goal was more manipulative than honest. Whether he was or was not able to interpret a woman's view is not definitively proved by this book, but strongly suggested. In any event it is a portrait of American lives and intellectual pursuits that are often left out of evaluations of the 'Victorian' US.
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- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 45
- Popularity
- #340,916
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 11