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Mark Twain’s Audience

Mark Twain’s Audience

MARK TWAINS AUDIENCE

Robert McParland

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2016
Materia
Sociedad y cultura: general
ISBN:
9781498504287
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The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twain’s audience as a unique “reading community”—how his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality and humor that Twain brought to their lives.

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