Mark Twain and the American West
By: Joseph L. Coulombe.
Series: Mark Twain and his circle series
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: 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 literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Go east, young man : class conflict and degenerate manhood in Mark Twain's early writings; title: Mark Twain as western outlaw : masculine language, violence, and success in Roughing it; title: Moneyed ruffians : the new American hero in Life on the Mississippi; title: Mark Twain's Native Americans and the repeated racial pattern in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; title: The eco-criticized Huck Finn : another look at nature in the works of Mark Twain; title: Mark Twain's influence on Willa Cather's West.