Cosmopolitanism

doi:10.1017/9781108617208.024

Chapter 22 - Cosmopolitanism

from Part III - Historical and Cultural Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019

Ann M. Ryan

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John Bird

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Although we think of Mark Twain as the quintessential example of the homespun American, he was actually very much a cosmopolitan. He lived in San Francisco and New York, and his mansion in Hartford was a center for writers, artists, and public figures. He was equally home abroad, living in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, and welcome in palaces and salons in fashionable Europe. He was truly a man of the world, and by his death, he was a world figure, an important commentator on the events of his time.

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Mark Twain Samuel Clemens cosmpolitanism cities Europe

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Information: Mark Twain in Context , pp. 224 - 232

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108617208.024 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2020

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