Mark Twain, the World, and Me - Following the Equator, Then and Now

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

A scholar accompanies Twain on his journey around the world

About the author

Susan K. Harris is distinguished professor emerita at the University of Kansas. She is author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902; The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew; The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain; 19th-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies; and Mark Twain's Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images.

Summary

Follows Mark Twain's last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers.

Product details

• Authors: Susan K. Harris
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780817359676
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5967-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General