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Mark Twain & France The Making of a New American Identity / Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrington, Paula, author.
- Jenn, Ronald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, French, in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Authors, American--France--History--19th century.
- Authors, American.
- Americans--France--History--19th century.
- Americans.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Travel--France.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Appreciation--France.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge--France.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge--America.
- America.
- France.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
- Summary:
- Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be "American" in the second half of the nineteenth century. 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book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.
- Contents:
- Timeline of the Clemenses in France : 1867-1895
- Introduction
- Accounting for the Creoles : 1835-60
- Leaving the river : 1861-66
- France for the first time : 1867-69
- Jumping the French : 1870-78
- Paris from the inside : 1879
- Less to prove : 1880-92
- Coming to terms : 1893-99.
- Notes:
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826273772
- 0826273777
- OCLC:
- 981463379
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