Mark Twain's geographical imagination / edited by Joseph A. Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alvarez, Joseph A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--History and criticism.

Authors, American.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Travel.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Islands (Hawai'I). He also traveled east to Europe and the Middle East. In between these early travels and his "around the world" lecture tour in the 1890s, he lived for periods of time in Europe. Fr...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; WORKS CITED; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-41341-4

9786612413414

1-4438-0793-1

OCLC:

823720452