Nature and Mobility in Mark Twain’s Roughing It

IF 0.2 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Mark Twain Annual Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI:10.5325/marktwaij.20.1.0201

J. Melton

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Abstract:This article explores the overland journey section of Roughing It as a key component of his overall engagement with the natural environment and his employment of mobility in landscape descriptions. Twain’s interactions with nature as he presents them to readers are rarely static evocations of beauty or of the sublime. To the contrary, he is often keenly attentive to the complex interactions between the natural environment and human movements. Twain evokes the vitality of nature by emphasizing movement as its definitive characteristic. Although he comically asserts in the prefatory that Roughing It derives from “variegated vagabondizing,” the narrative suggests a more nuanced immersion into the American West built on the persistent desire to move.

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马克·吐温《风雨无阻》中的自然与流动性

摘要：本文探讨了Roughing It的陆路旅行部分，这是他全面参与自然环境和在景观描述中使用流动性的关键组成部分。吐温向读者展示的与自然的互动很少是对美或崇高的静态唤起。相反，他经常敏锐地关注自然环境和人类运动之间的复杂互动。吐温强调运动是自然的决定性特征，从而唤起了自然的活力。尽管他在序言中滑稽地断言，《Roughing It》源于“多样化的流浪”，但叙事暗示了对美国西部的一种更微妙的沉浸，这种沉浸建立在对移动的持久渴望之上。

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Mark Twain Annual LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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期刊介绍： The Mark Twain Annual publishes articles related to Mark Twain and those who surrounded him and serves as an outlet for new scholarship as well as new pedagogical approaches. It is the official publication of the Mark Twain Circle of America, an international association of people interested in the life and work of Mark Twain. The Circle encourages interest in Mark Twain and fosters the formal presentation of ideas about the author and his work, as well as the informal exchange of information among its members.

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