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Mark Twain-"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc"
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Mark Twain-"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is an historical novel. Mark Twain turned to this writing form later in his writing career as a passion and consuming obsession. It took all of 12 years to produce what he considered his masterpiece. He creates the events of her life through the voice of Sieur Louis de Conte, her lifelong friend and companion.
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Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism
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Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of RomanticismNervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism

Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity.
 
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