"Peculiar Insanity": Hereditary Sympathy and the Nationalist Enterprise in Twain's <em>The American Claiment</em>
This thesis identifies a claimant narrative tradition in nineteenth-century American literature and examines the role of that tradition in the formation of American national identity. Drawing on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The American Claimant Manuscripts and Our Old Home (1863) as well as Mark Twain’s T...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2015
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5264 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6263&context=etd |