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Mark Twain's travel literature : the odyssey of a mind  Cover Image Book Book

Mark Twain's travel literature : the odyssey of a mind

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  • ISBN: 0786436514 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780786436514 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: ix, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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  • Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: "Appendix : travel works probably read and owned by Mark Twain": p. 181-200.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Travel as a quest for knowledge -- Travel as a method of piloting the river of life -- Innocents abroad : a parody of tourist books -- Roughing it : travel as a way to find an identity -- A tramp abroad : travel experiment and narrative lapse -- Life on the Mississippi : travel as a form of knowledge -- Following the equator : travel as nostalgia, loss and recovery -- Mark Twain's travel : looking for an identity in fiction -- Mark Twain's travel : looking for stable time in his fiction -- Appendix: travel works probably read and owned by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain).
Summary, etc.: "This critical study focuses on Twain's representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator"--Provided by publisher.
Subject: Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Criticism and interpretation
Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Travel
Travelers' writings, American History and criticism
Travel in literature
Time in literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature

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