Mark Twain
Auteur: Peter Messent
Nombre de pages: 248 pages
ISBN: 1349252719, 9781349252718
Edition: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date de publication: Bloomsbury Publishing
Description: 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.