Mark Twain
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1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-58566-5 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-58566-5 (ISBN)
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Provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the forms and themes of his major texts. This book uses cultural and literary theory to re-examine Twain's travel writing and fiction. It focuses on Twain's humour and his attitudes to such subjects as boyhood.
This book provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the forms and themes of his major texts. The author uses recent cultural and literary theory to re-examine Twain's travel writing and fiction, writing in a jargon-free and accessible manner. He focuses on Twain's humour and his attitudes to such subjects as boyhood, nationality, race relations, technology, and capitalist expansion, and shows how his work reflects anxieties both about changes in the social and industrial order in post Civil-War America and the status of the individual within it.
This book provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the forms and themes of his major texts. The author uses recent cultural and literary theory to re-examine Twain's travel writing and fiction, writing in a jargon-free and accessible manner. He focuses on Twain's humour and his attitudes to such subjects as boyhood, nationality, race relations, technology, and capitalist expansion, and shows how his work reflects anxieties both about changes in the social and industrial order in post Civil-War America and the status of the individual within it.
Acknowledgements - Keeping Both Eyes Open: 'The Stolen White Elephant' - Old World Travel: The Innocents Abroad - Roughing It and the American West - Tom Sawyer and American Cultural Life: Anxieties and Accommodations - Racial Politics in Huckleberry Finn - Fantasy and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Severed Connections: Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins - The Late Works: Incompletion, Instability, Contradiction - Notes - Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.1.1997 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Modern Novelists |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 296 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-333-58566-6 / 0333585666 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-58566-5 / 9780333585665 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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