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Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn
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ISBN: 9782075079495 2075079498 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris: Gallimard Jeunesse,


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Mark Twain and money : language, capital, and culture
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ISBN: 0817390871 9780817390877 9780817319441 0817319441 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press,


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Mark Twain & France : The Making of a New American Identity
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ISBN: 0826273777 9780826273772 9780826221193 082622119X Year: 2017 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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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book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.

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