Mark Twain: Protagonist for the Popular Culture

by Marlene Boyd Vallin

How did Mark Twain develop his remarkable oral style of writing which was so carefully crafted? And what can we learn about nineteenth-century America from the public speeches of this humorist and teacher who charmed his country and exported his notions of Americanism around the world? This is the very first book-length critical analysis to deal exclusively with Twain's oratory. Another reference volume in the Great American Orators Series,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313273537
• ISBN13: 9780313273537
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"