Mark Twain's audience : a critical analysis of reader responses to the writings of Mark Twain /

McParland, Robert,

Mark Twain's audience : a critical analysis of reader responses to the writings of Mark Twain / Robert McParland. - 1 online resource (239 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

America's Mark Twain -- The Innocents abroad and the American reader -- Marketing Mark Twain -- The trouble that began at eight: audiences for Twain's lectures -- Childhood reading -- Reading in cultural institutions -- The variety of readers: gender, race, ethnicity -- The global audience -- Mark Twain's audience and his afterlife.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Appreciation--United States.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Influence.


Books and reading--History.--United States


Electronic books.

PS1342.A54 / M37 2014

818/.409