The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain
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For its focus on and treatment of a female (Zwarg 60-62) and for its essential optimism and idealism re- garding human potential in a period when many of his other works reflect pessimism and despair, Twain''s Joan of Arc deserves wider attention, reexamination, and reappraisal. Thomas A. Maik BIBLIOGRAPHY Clemens, Samuel L. Personal Recollections ofJoan of Arc. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1980. Cox, James M. Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton ...