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Mark Twain and the American West (MARK TWAIN & HIS CIRCLE)
Joseph L. Coulombe
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Hardcover. Joseph Coulombe maintains that for over 25 years, Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify his public image. Coulombe analyses the stereotypes Twain uses and explores his struggle to find a new model of the West. Series: Mark Twain and His Circle Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe maintains that for more than twenty-five years, Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of the region in the development of a persona that not only helped redefine American manhood and literary celebrity in the late nineteenth century, but also produced some of the most complex and challenging writings in the American canon. Coulombe sheds new light on previously underappreciated components of Twain's distinctly western persona. Gathering new evidence from contemporary ... Read more
In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe maintains that for more than twenty-five years, Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of the region in the development of a persona that not only helped redefine American manhood and literary celebrity in the late nineteenth century, but also produced some of the most complex and challenging writings in the American canon. Coulombe sheds new light on previously underappreciated components of Twain's distinctly western persona. Gathering new evidence from contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Series
Mark Twain and His Circle Series.
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826214614
SKU
V9780826214614
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