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Mark Twain's Geographical Imagination.

As early as the 1850s, when Samuel L. Clemens (before he became Mark Twain), as a teenager, traveled from his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, to the east (Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and New York City) and south (St, Louis). In the 1860s, he traveled west to Nevada, California, and The Sandwich Is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alvarez, Joseph A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : mining literary ore from physical and inaginative travels / Joseph A. Alvarez
  • Metaphors of north and south, east and west in Mark Twain's "The private history of a campaign that failed" / John Bird
  • Bridging the gap : the twin kingdoms of The prince and the pauper / John Davis
  • Roughing it : Mark Twain's geography of the west, imagined and real / Horace J. Digby
  • Revisiting the significance of Mark Twain's Hawaiian sojurn / David Kesterson
  • The Illinois side of Mark Twain / Sandra Littleton-Uetz
  • Tom Sawyer's lessons in geography; or the holy land as flapdoodle in Tom Sawyer abroad / Charles Martin
  • Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and the geographical "memory" of a nation / Janice McIntire-Strasburg
  • Seeing the river : Mark Twain's landscape imagination / Jeffrey Alan Melton
  • The stranger in paradise : Dollis Hill, Florence, Dublin, and Samuel Clemens' creative imagination / Mark Woodhouse
  • "Interrupting a funeral with a circus" : Mark Twain, imperial ambivalence, and baseball in the Sandwich Islands / Tracy Wuster.