Mark Twain & France

The Making of a New American Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s relationship with France as hostile, Harrington and Jenn see Twain’s use of the French as a foil to help construct his identity as “the representative American.” Examining new materials that detail his Montmatre study, the carte de visite album, and a chronology of his visits to France, the book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-06-30
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMark Twain and His Circle
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity of Missouri Press
ISBN9780826221193

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Paula Harrington is director of the Farnham Writers’ Center and an assistant professor of writing at Colby College. In 2013, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, doing research that led to her collaboration with Jenn on this book. She lives in Portland, ME.Ronald Jenn is a professor at Université de Lille, France. He is the author of La Pseudo-traduction, de Cervantès à Mark Twain. He lives in Lille, France.

Alternately takes up panoramic historical and cultural vistas and carefully analyzes passages from all sorts of text with judgment and a sense of proportion."" - Tom Quirk, University of Missouri, author of Mark Twain and Human Nature""The authors work seamlessly back and forth between historical data, biographical detail, and attention to multiple works by Twain that illuminate his complex relationship to the French and to France."" - Linda A. Morris, University of California, author of Gender Play in Mark Twain