…of his major travel books. More general accounts of his travels and travel writings form an entire genre. A representative sampling of the latter are Charles Neider’s Travels of Mark…
…of his lecture. Clemens as Mark Twain in his Hawai‘i letters reinvents the travel letter by merging the antebellum comic tradition of mock travel letters, exemplified by Seba Smith’s Major…
…his Hawai‘i letters reinvents the travel letter by merging the antebellum comic tradition of mock travel letters, exemplified by Seba Smith’s Major Jack Downing, with the highbrow style of travel…
…government as well as to private foundations, was to deputize Americans traveling abroad for business and “public diplomacy” (another euphemism) as advocates for US interests and, as importantly, against communism….
…lash and sting of popular disfavor – yet all in their turn have conquered the prejudice and hate of their surroundings. Greatness does not come to any people on flowery…
…advocate for getting the Clemenses into the mix. “They would be charming neighbors for us, at least she would,” Lilly wrote to her husband, George, whose business travels have provided…
…business travels have provided us with the couple’s massive correspondence and commentary on local doings.[4] The property for sale was in an area they called “the grove,” fronting on the…
…Europe were still “provincial in every respect” (77). Apparently, travel was not always fatal to prejudice, as Twain claimed. When in Paris herself, King (who was fluent in French) recorded…
…overuse of this Clemens/Twain duality is the real cause of the confusion,” suggesting that the persona Twain “bears all ‘the blatant chauvinism and narrow-mindedness’ while Sam Clemens is exonerated as…
…by Twain scholars who have done extensive research and writing about the travel book and the voyage it describes. “Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen…
