In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America [Hardcover]

Forrest Robinson (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0674445279 | ISBN-13: 978-0674445277 | Publication Date: November 24, 1986

Bad faith as the author calls the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act and how we interpret our own behaviour, is more than a theme in Mark Twain. Robinson shows that Twain's bleak view of man's social nature, his nostalgia, his ambivalence about the South and his complex relationship to his audience, can all be traced to an awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture.

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Forrest G. Robinson is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Hardcover: 255 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (November 24, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674445279
ISBN-13: 978-0674445277
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,708,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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