TY  - BOOK
AU  - Messent, Peter
TI  - Mark Twain  
T2  - Macmillan Modern Novelists
SN  - 0333585674
U1  - 818.409 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - American Literature
KW  - Mark Twain
N2  - 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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