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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9618
Title: Mark Twain Raising the Devil
Authors: Keenleyside, Glen F.
Advisor: Sigman, Joseph
Department: English
Keywords: English Language and Literature;English Language and Literature
Publication Date: 15-Sep-1981
Abstract: <p>In the space of eleven years (1897-1908), Twain worked intermittently on three different portrayals of a devilish stranger in unfinished stories which are known collectively as the Mysterious Stranger manuscripts. In this thesis I will examine these different devilish strangers, taking as my starting point an examination of Hank Morgan in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), whom I feel is their precursor. I will conclude the thesis by illustrating Twain's continued interest in the devilish stranger figure after his abandonment of the Mysterious Stranger manuscripts, in "Letters from the Earth."</p>
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9618
Identifier: opendissertations/4724
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