The influence of Virginia City on Mark Twain's writings from 1862-1872.

Since 1910, the year of Mark Twain's death, and until the present day, there has been a steady flow of literature which has revealed many aspects of his life and character. This study reveals the significance of Mark Twain's Nevada years. In Nevada it was believed his genius was discovered; there it flowered. In Nevada Twain lived his Western experience to the fullest, and the result was loud and clear. It was an understanding and unflinching assertion of the ordinary self of the ordinary American which, no doubt, helped make Twain one of the foremost men of letters in the world even today. The Innocents Abroad was Twain's first successful book and Roughing It was his second. Both are highly provincial and both preserve to our time the story and spirit of an era which for long had vanished. In them, as in many of his books, Twain truthfully expressed what he once said to his wife: "... down in the hearts of hearts, I yearn for the days that are gone and the phantoms of the olden days."

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

1968

Author dc:creator

• Ward, Fadwa El. Tamimi, 1927-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Long, E. Hudson (Eugene Hudson), 1908-1990.

• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Biography -- 1835-1910.

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Language dc:language.iso

en

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https://hdl.handle.net/2104/14435

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