Mark Twain, Culture and Gender - Envisioning America Through Europe

Informationen zum Autor J. D. STAHL (1952-2010) was a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He was a coeditor of Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism . Klappentext Often regarded as the quintessential American author! Mark Twain in fact mined his knowledge and experience of Europe as assiduously as he did his adventures on the Mississippi and in the American West. This original study looks closely at Twain works with European settings and traces the manner in which he redefined European notions of class into American concepts of gender! identity! and society.

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• Authors: J D Stahl, J. Stahl, J. D. Stahl
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2012
• EAN: 9780820341125
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4112-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General