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.
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In this opening chapter, I look closely at one of Twain's most puzzling short stories, 'The Stolen White Elephant', to identify how, in this specific case, the narrative works, and where its comic effects lie. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evasion sequence, relativistic uncertainty, allegorical aspects, dream tales, late fiction, epistemological uncertainty, waking self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puddn'head Wilson, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee, Old World, The Innocents Abroad, Those Extraordinary Twins, Stolen White, Following the Equator, Injun Joe, San Francisco, The Great Dark, New York, Hank Morgan, Miss Watson, Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes, Bruce Michelson, Carson City, Christopher Colombo, Dawson's Landing, Holy Land, Susan Gillman, Aunt Polly, Cindy Weinstein, Martha Banta New!
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In this opening chapter, I look closely at one of Twain's most puzzling short stories, 'The Stolen White Elephant', to identify how, in this specific case, the narrative works, and where its comic effects lie. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evasion sequence, relativistic uncertainty, allegorical aspects, dream tales, late fiction, epistemological uncertainty, waking self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puddn'head Wilson, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee, Old World, The Innocents Abroad, Those Extraordinary Twins, Stolen White, Following the Equator, Injun Joe, San Francisco, The Great Dark, New York, Hank Morgan, Miss Watson, Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes, Bruce Michelson, Carson City, Christopher Colombo, Dawson's Landing, Holy Land, Susan Gillman, Aunt Polly, Cindy Weinstein, Martha Banta New!
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain on 38 pages
- Roughing It (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain on 35 pages
- Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain on 33 pages
- The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) by Mark Twain on 28 pages
- The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories (1882, 1896, 1902) (Oxford Mark Twain) by Mark Twain on 20 pages
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- The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study by Peter Messent on 10 pages
- Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture by Shelley Fisher Fishkin on 7 pages
- Mark Twain, A Literary Life by Everett Emerson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Proper Mark Twain by Leland Krauth on page 54, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution by Bruce Michelson in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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