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Scott Holmes
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:43:54 -0700
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Having just come across the Day By Day entry for March 8, 1890 with its
reference to Joseph Jones’ article, “Mark Twain’s Yankee and Australian
Nationalism” (American Literature, May 1968), I began to wonder how much
Connecticut Yankee influenced his reception in Australia in 1895. Miriam
Shillingsburg, in the preface to her book “At Home Abroad” writes: “The
social significance of Twain’s visit is indicated by the welcome he
received from the highest classes of society”. Jones writes in his
article, comparing the reception of Connecticut Yankee in England to
that of Australia: “In Australia, contrariwise, scarcely anything that
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