America's home town
Fiction, Mark Twain, and the re-creation of Hannibal, Missouri
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul A Shackel (0000-0002-8322-1057, a Department of Anthropology , University of Maryland , College Park, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 197-213 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2010.532228 |
| OpenAlex | W1986797778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, is one of America’s best known novelists. He wrote what many literary critics consider the first ‘Great American Novel’, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884. This book and his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), are based partly on his boyhood experiences living on the Mississippi River and in the town of Hannibal, Missouri. While Twain is best known as a humorist who pointed out satirical situations in everyday life, by the late nineteenth century he wrote extensively about social justice issues, making explicit commentaries on imperialism, labour, and racism. After Twain’s death in 1910 the citizens of Hannibal worked diligently to strengthen the connection between Mark Twain and Hannibal in order to make Mark Twain and their city part of the national public memory despite him living there only a portion of his 75 years
Adventure · American literature · Art · Art history · Literature · Popular fiction · Racism · Sociology · American History and Culture · American Literature and Humor Studies · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |