"It's a Great Country, Ma'" - Blind Leads and Shifting Ground
The West in Mark Twain's Roughing It
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895062 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Messent (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-78 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-026-01-03 |
| OpenAlex | W2031610885 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward . . . furnish the forces dominating American character. . . . The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. . . . The fact is, that here is a new product that is American. (Turner [1893] 1956, 2)
American west · Americanization · Archaeology · Art · Character (mathematics · Culture of the United States · Ethnology · Frontier · Literature · Product (mathematics · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · American History and Culture · American Literature and Humor Studies · Anthropology · History
The incorporation of America
The Dialogic Imagination
The Machine in the Garden
The Pacific Slope
Under an Open Sky
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
The Monomythic Structure of Roughing it
Mark Twain on the Loose
Reevaluating Mark Twain's Novel of Hawaii
Realistic Style and the Problem of Context in "The Innocents Abroad" and "Roughing It
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale
The Coming of Age of American Business
Mark Twain's Response to the Native American
An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life
Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |