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Mark Twain and the American West [electronic resource] / Joseph L. Coulombe.

By: Coulombe, Joseph L, 1966-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Mark Twain and his circle series: Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003Description: xi, 181 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- West (U.S.) | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.) | Western stories -- History and criticism | Indians in literature | Nature in literature | West (U.S.) -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 818.409 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Go east, young man : class conflict and degenerate manhood in Mark Twain's early writings -- Mark Twain as western outlaw : masculine language, violence, and success in Roughing it -- Moneyed ruffians : the new American hero in Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain's Native Americans and the repeated racial pattern in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The eco-criticized Huck Finn : another look at nature in the works of Mark Twain -- Mark Twain's influence on Willa Cather's West.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.

Go east, young man : class conflict and degenerate manhood in Mark Twain's early writings -- Mark Twain as western outlaw : masculine language, violence, and success in Roughing it -- Moneyed ruffians : the new American hero in Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain's Native Americans and the repeated racial pattern in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The eco-criticized Huck Finn : another look at nature in the works of Mark Twain -- Mark Twain's influence on Willa Cather's West.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.