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Eight perennially popular novels appear regularly on American Literature courses.

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.

Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, Mark Twain and Male Friendship examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. With accessible prose informed by extensive research, the study explores the relationships between Mark Twain and his pastor Joseph Twichell, his rival William Dean Howells, and his unlikely ally, Standard Oil robber baron H....

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 refle...

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Employing theoretical approaches drawn from Genette, Barthes, Iser, Ricouer, Bakhtin, and others, Messent provides an accessible and stimulating bridge between the European theoretical tradition and the American novelistic canon.

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

With its compelling blend of murder, mystery, and detection, it should come as no surprise that crime fiction is a hugely popular literary genre. The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on its American, British, and Scandinavian forms. The book's first main section presents an overview of the subject, addressing the poli...

This highly unusual and specialist book is sure to delight local historians with its extensive list of door knockers of Norwich. Each knocker is lovingly illustrated and annotated by the author. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

A fascinating and colourful account of the lives of the embroiderers who created the Bayeaux Tapestry. The product of many years of research, it explains who they were, what tools and materials they used, and how the massive project was designed and organised. Messent also draws on her own experience as an embroiderer.

Reworked for modern knitters, instructions for crafting a yarn and stitch nativity scene. Particularly suitable as a group project.

One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years. Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature.

A young chaplain vividly recounts his ordeal by fire

This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years.Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in Amer...

Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particul...

This clear and incisive introduction situates Twain's works in the historical and cultural context of his times.

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