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Hal -

Are you familiar with "Our Famous Guest: Mark Twain in Vienna" by Carl
Dolmetsch?

Hilton Obenzinger

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Hal Bush wrote:

> I am interested in finding secondary sources (or even primary from 100
> years ago or so) that discuss Mark Twain as image of America overseas
> (especially in Europe/UK).  I am aware of many of the key sources covering
> some of these issues such as Twain's public image, like Louis Budd's _Our
> Mark Twain_, John Seelye's _MT at the Movies_, and Shelley Fisher Fishkin's
> _Lighting Out_.  What I would like are less well-known sources that
> discuss, for example, how Twain was viewed as representative American by
> the French, or English, or whomever (pro and con, as well).  Double bonus
> would be those sources with actual plates/figures of ads, or whatever, that
> pictured Twain as such.
>
> Any suggestions??
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