History

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Chapter 25 - History

from Part III - Historical and Cultural Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019

Gregg Camfield

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Mark Twain was an avid student of history. He was especially interested in European history, with reading in Lecky and other historians. He used his interest in history in historical fiction like The Prince and the Pauper and Joan of Arc, and his perceptions about history guided his observations about his own time, notably in his late polemical writings, where he saw parallels between European and American imperialism and earlier eras.

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Mark Twain Samuel Clemens history

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Information: Mark Twain in Context , pp. 253 - 263

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108617208.027 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2020

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