{"id":2505,"date":"2009-11-06T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2009-11-06T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:52:45","slug":"english-prof-honored-for-new-look-at-mark-twains-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/11\/english-prof-honored-for-new-look-at-mark-twains-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"English prof honored for new look at Mark Twain&#8217;s thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"fulton-nov09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fulton-nov09.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Joe Fulton\" width=\"225\" height=\"280\" \/>Work that began three years ago as a potential journal article by English professor Dr. Joe Fulton has evolved into not just a complete book, but one worthy of the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/lsupress\/series_jfl.html\" target=\"_blank\">Landry Award<\/a>, given annually to the best book on Southern studies published by LSU Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=64184\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Reconstruction of Mark Twain<\/em><\/a>, takes an in-depth look at the famed writer&#8217;s evolving political allegiances, actions and writings during and after the Civil War. Unlike previous Twain scholars, Fulton found that Twain remained a Southern who opposed Lincoln and and the North for years after the Civil War ended, until he very gradually recognized the tragedy of racism and slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Landry Award winners include Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Penn Warren, current Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner John Hope Franklin. <em>The Reconstruction of Mark Twain<\/em> will be released next fall, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Twain&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. Fulton!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work that began three years ago as a potential journal article by English professor Dr. Joe Fulton has evolved into not just a complete book, but one worthy of the prestigious Landry Award, given annually to the best book on Southern studies published by LSU Press. Fulton&#8217;s book, The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, takes an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}