Author: Paula Harrington
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.
Mark Twain & France
Author: Paula Harrington
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Mark Twain & France
Author: Paula Harrington
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082622119X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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."
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082622119X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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."
A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Great French Duel
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780772502124
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780772502124
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Joan of Arc
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898702682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This historical novel purportedly written by Joan's longtime friend -- Sieur Louis de Conte -- discloses Twain's unrestrained admiration for the French heroine's nobility of character.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898702682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This historical novel purportedly written by Joan's longtime friend -- Sieur Louis de Conte -- discloses Twain's unrestrained admiration for the French heroine's nobility of character.
The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
I, THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE, was born in Neufchateau, on the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before Joan of Arc was born in Domremy. My family had fled to those distant regions from the neighborhood of Paris in the first years of the century. In politics they were Armagnacs-patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. The Burgundian party, who were for the English, had stripped them, and done it well. They took everything but my father's small nobility, and when he reached Neufchateau he reached it in poverty and with a broken spirit. But the political atmosphere there was the sort he liked, and that was something. He came to a region of comparative quiet; he left behind him a region peopled with furies, madmen, devils, where slaughter was a daily pastime and no man's life safe for a moment. In Paris, mobs roared through the streets nightly, sacking, burning, killing, unmolested, uninterrupted. The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. None had the courage to gather these dead for burial; they were left there to rot and create plagues.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
I, THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE, was born in Neufchateau, on the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before Joan of Arc was born in Domremy. My family had fled to those distant regions from the neighborhood of Paris in the first years of the century. In politics they were Armagnacs-patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. The Burgundian party, who were for the English, had stripped them, and done it well. They took everything but my father's small nobility, and when he reached Neufchateau he reached it in poverty and with a broken spirit. But the political atmosphere there was the sort he liked, and that was something. He came to a region of comparative quiet; he left behind him a region peopled with furies, madmen, devils, where slaughter was a daily pastime and no man's life safe for a moment. In Paris, mobs roared through the streets nightly, sacking, burning, killing, unmolested, uninterrupted. The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. None had the courage to gather these dead for burial; they were left there to rot and create plagues.
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: Personal recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Comte [pseud.] ... freely translated out of the ancient French ... by J.F. Alden [pseud
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: Personal recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Comte [pseud.] ... freely translated out of the ancient French ... by J. F. Alden [pseud
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Complete)
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 161310037X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
A fictional biography told as if written by Saint Joan's page and secretary. He relates Joan's brief life and stormy career with understanding and admiration that grew after her death.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 161310037X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
A fictional biography told as if written by Saint Joan's page and secretary. He relates Joan's brief life and stormy career with understanding and admiration that grew after her death.