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Mark Twain and Human Nature (Mark Twain and His Circle Series)
Tom Quirk
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Description for Mark Twain and Human Nature (Mark Twain and His Circle Series)
Hardcover. Mark Twain's fiction and nonfiction was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why. This work takes a closer look at this icon's abiding interest in his fellow creatures. Viewing major and minor works through the lens of Twain's shifting attitude, it gives perspectives on the master's oeuvre. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why. Now one of America's preeminent Twain scholars takes a closer look at this icon's abiding interest in his fellow creatures. In seeking to account for how Twain might have reasonably believed the things he said he believed, Tom Quirk has interwoven the author's inner ... Read more
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why. Now one of America's preeminent Twain scholars takes a closer look at this icon's abiding interest in his fellow creatures. In seeking to account for how Twain might have reasonably believed the things he said he believed, Tom Quirk has interwoven the author's inner ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826217585
SKU
V9780826217585
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About Tom Quirk
Tom Quirk is author or editor of numerous books, including Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (University of Missouri Press), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction, and The Portable Mark Twain. He is Professor of English at the University of Missouri - Columbia.
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