This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life.
Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America's most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens's often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain's writing.
While most readers are...
This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life.
Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.
Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathani...