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Mark Twain and the American West

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From: The Journal of American Culture
Date: 20031201
Author:Browne, Ray B

Mark Twain and the American West Joseph L. Coulombe. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.

Scholars shuffle among footnotes of Mark Twain scholarship like an army of Boswells chronicling the life and writings of Dr. Johnson. But Twain is more to us than Dr. Johnson was to Boswell. With the unending papers at Berkeley and the growing library of publications about his life and writings, Twain is the Shakespeare of American life and literature and of the uncoverings of scholars interested in him.

This book is an interesting example of how picky scholarship on Twain is becoming. It is ...

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