Browsing by Subject "Mark Twain"
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Sentimental Boundaries in Mark Twain's Novels
(2018-12-14)In this dissertation, I discuss Mark Twain’s major novels in terms of sentimentality and boundary-making. Indeed, Twain is concerned with male sympathy toward other men in many of his major works: Tom Sawyer’s compassion ... -
"The truth in masquerade": masking and self-making in literature
(2022)This thesis analyzes scenes of “masquerade” in three literary texts, the Oresteia of Aeschylus (458 B.C.E.), Eliza Fowler Haywood’s short novel Fantomina; or Love in a Maze (1725), and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in ...