Mark Twain and Estate Planning

IF 0.2 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

Mark Twain Annual Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.5325/marktwaij.19.1.0118

Lawrence W. Howe

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract:A surprising number of Mark Twain’s texts include inheritance as a plot point and sometimes as a major premise, such as in The Gilded Age where he converted his family’s disappointment about the Tennessee land into the engine of his first major work of fiction. This essay will discuss how a number of these texts project a skeptical attitude, even a satirical perspective, about how inter-generational wealth functions and how it affects the behavior of those who anticipate an inheritance. In so doing, Twain’s writings about inheritance show how property rights rely on various discourses as the often-shaky building blocks of hereditary claims.

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马克·吐温与遗产规划

摘要:马克·吐温的许多作品都将继承作为一个情节点，有时甚至作为一个主要前提，比如在《镀金时代》中，他将家人对田纳西土地的失望转化为他第一部重要小说的动力。本文将讨论这些文本如何投射出一种怀疑的态度，甚至是讽刺的观点，关于代际财富是如何运作的，以及它如何影响那些期望继承的人的行为。通过这种方式，马克·吐温关于遗产的作品展示了产权是如何依赖于各种不同的话语，而这些话语往往是不稳固的遗传主张的基石。

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Mark Twain Annual LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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0.40

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Mark Twain Annual publishes articles related to Mark Twain and those who surrounded him and serves as an outlet for new scholarship as well as new pedagogical approaches. It is the official publication of the Mark Twain Circle of America, an international association of people interested in the life and work of Mark Twain. The Circle encourages interest in Mark Twain and fosters the formal presentation of ideas about the author and his work, as well as the informal exchange of information among its members.