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A Historical Guide to Mark Twain (Historical Guides to American Authors) - Softcover

Book 7 of 13: Historical Guides to American Authors

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

 
9780195132939: A Historical Guide to Mark Twain (Historical Guides to American Authors)

Synopsis

Mark Twain remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Mark Twain's work including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class and imperialism. This volume also contains a introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.

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About the Author

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of The Oxford Mark Twain and author of Was Huck Black? (OUP) and Lighting Out for the Territory (OUP).

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