“Tell everything as it is – no better and no worse:” Images of the West in Washington Irving and Mark Twain
In the United States of the nineteenth-century, the struggle to liberate American writing from European influences took many forms, but one prophecy was that a literature of the West would amount to an American coming of age. The prophecy remains unfulfilled and as one commentator has argued, all t...
Main Author: | Paul Titchmarsh |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Pardubice
2008-12-01
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Series: | American and British Studies Annual |
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Online Access: | https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2117 |
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