| Mark Twain 1997 Edition Contributor(s): Messent, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333585674 ISBN-13: 9780333585672 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 818.409 |
| Series: Modern Novelists |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.64 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |