The Treatment of Landscapes and Cityscapes in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Innocents Abroad: Natural and Cultural Spaces in the Old and the New World

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Presentation (Handout) from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, RWTH Aachen University, course: Mark Twain, language: English, abstract: As we all know Twain was very familiar with this landscape since he grew up there. In his 3 majorMississippi novels he tries to give the reader an impression of his Mississippi landscapeThere are various approaches to describe the experience of observing the river and its banks in thedawn, but the one in Huck Finn, which is so to say the third approach seems to be the most successfulIf one compares some phrases from all three novels describing the same event and the same [...]

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