“Go West Young Joan!” Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)

The artifices that Mark Twain used to publish his novel Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Sieur Louis de Conte in 1895-6 mystified his readers no less than the appeal of the heroine for an avowed atheist. Twain’s earliest encounter with Joan, when he was 15 years old, while working as a print...

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Main Author: Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2016-01-01
Series:Perspectives Médiévales
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/peme/9625

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