Mark Twain & France : the making of a new American identity / Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn.
Mark Twain & France : the making of a new American identity / Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn.
Mark Twain & France : the making of a new American identity / Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn.
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Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2017]
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G 2019/0785
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English
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xx, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Accounting for the Creoles: 1835-60 -- Leaving the river: 1861-66 -- France for the first time: 1867-69 -- Jumping the French: 1870-78 -- Paris from the inside: 1879 -- Less to prove: 1880-92 -- Coming to terms: 1893-99.
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Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2017]
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Missouri
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be "American" in the second half of the nineteenth century. While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain's relationship with France as hostile, Harrington and Jenn see T...
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Mark Twain & France : the making of a new American identity / Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn.
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Mark Twain and his circle
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.
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©2017
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G 2019/0785
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74VKV0voVB4Z
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082622119X
9780826221193
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818.409
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991024224103702626
