`It's a great country, Ma'--blind leads and shifting ground: The West in Mark Twain's Roughing It.

Presents a critique of Mark Twain's book `Roughing It' describing the frontier life in the West. Significant western distinctiveness; Idea of restorative return to the primitive; Instability and complexity of the western frontier; Twain's complex and contradictory attitude to his western materials;...

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Publicado en:Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 49 - 78
Autor principal: Messent, Peter
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 1996
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