A Companion to Mark Twain by Messent, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Note on Referencing

Mark Twain’s Major Works Mark Twain’s Short Works

Acknowledgments PART I: The Cultural Context

1 Mark Twain and Nation

Nation, Genealogy, and Race Nation and Modernization Nationality, Femininity, and Imperialism National Author REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

2 Mark Twain and Human Nature

Twain’s Developing Ideas about Human Nature Twain as Humorist, Moralist, and Sage Twain as Determinist Twain’s Final Thoughts on the Damned Human Race REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

3 Mark Twain and America’s Christian Mission Abroad

The American Christian The US as an Imperial Power Mark Twain and Missionaries Mark Twain and the Racial Other Mark Twain’s Spatial Aesthetic Mark Twain and America’s Christian Mission Abroad REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING Collections Cited

4 Mark Twain and Whiteness

White of a Different Color Visible Whiteness Invisible Blackness White Hegemony REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

5 Mark Twain and Gender

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

6 Twain and Modernity

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

7 Mark Twain and Politics

Mark Twain, Political Reporter Party Politics Mark Twain, Mugwump REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

8 “The State, it is I”: Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART II: Mark Twain and Others

9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists

The Language of Southern Humor Social Philology in Roughing It and A Connecticut Yankee The Innocents Abroad and A Tramp Abroad: Language and National Difference Race and Class: Pudd’nhead Wilson and Life on the Mississippi Conclusion: Sut and Huck REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

10 The “American Dickens”: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens

Dickens in America Old and New Worlds in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit The “American Dickens”: The Gilded Age and Huckleberry Finn Conclusion: The “American Dickens” and Beyond REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

12 The Twain–Cable Combination

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism

Twain, Realism, and the Literary Context The Case of Huckleberry Finn Realist Writing, Literature, and the Marketplace The Limits of Realism REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART III: Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing

14 “I don’t know A from B”: Mark Twain and Orality

Definitions Roots and Reading Oral Gentility/Literate Vernacular Re-presented Orality Stage/Presence REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing

The Emerging Professional Twain and the Business of Writing The Resisting Writer The Consummate Professional REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines

Publicity Pleasure vs. Pain: The Problems of Magazine Writing The “mighty difficult work” of Magazines Twain, Books, and Magazines Prestige Conclusion REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

17 Mark Twain and the Stage

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

18 Mark Twain on the Screen

Hollywood as an Ally The Silent Film Era The Coming of Sound The Emergence of Television Return to Big-Screen Productions A New Golden Age of Television REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART IV: Mark Twain and Travel

19 Twain and the Mississippi

The Matter of the River The Duplicity of the Mississippi Maternal Water Reconstructing the Mississippi REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing

The Popularity of Travel Writing Conventions of Travel Writing The Roving Correspondent “A Brave Conception”: The Innocents Abroad “Variegated Vagabondizing”: Roughing It “The Spectacle”: A Tramp Abroad “A Standard Work”: Life on the Mississippi The “Power of Thought”: Following the Equator America’s Travel Writer REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART V: Mark Twain’s Fiction

23 Mark Twain’s Short Fiction

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

25 Plotting and Narrating “Huck”

Jackson’s Island and Jim The Move Downriver toward Cairo The Break (and Resumption) in Composition: The Feud The Continued Journey and the King and the Duke Colonel Sherburn Tom Sawyer’s Return REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

26 Going to Tom’s Hell in Huckleberry Finn

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

27 History, “Civilization,” and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

“The Excess of Yankee Curiosity”: Twain with Beard “The Joys of Cruelty”: Twain with Nietzsche “The Economics of our Happiness”: Twain with Freud Conclusion: The “Battle of the Sand Belt” REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

28 Mark Twain’s Dialects

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

29 Killing Half a Dog, Half a Novel: The Trouble with The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART VI: Mark Twain’s Humor

31 Mark Twain’s Visual Humor

“The Openly Dramatized Personality” Comic Drawings Deadpan Frills Embedded Photographs REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor

A Year of Changes: 1867, Mark Twain, and American Humor Mark Twain and his Contemporaries Canonicity Then and Now Literary Humor Angles of Vision Domestic Humor Mark Twain and 1888 REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING Additional References

34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

PART VII: A Retrospective

35 The State of Mark Twain Studies

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