Mark Twain

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Mark Twain is written by Peter Messent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349252719 (ISBN 10) and 9781349252718 (ISBN 13).

This book provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the forms and themes of his major texts. The author uses recent cultural and literary theory to re-examine Twain's travel writing and fiction, writing in a jargon-free and accessible manner. He focuses on Twain's humour and his attitudes to such subjects as boyhood, nationality, race relations, technology, and capitalist expansion, and shows how his work reflects anxieties both about changes in the social and industrial order in post Civil-War America and the status of the individual within it.