This broad–ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up–and–coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad–ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain?s works remain both relevant and important for a twenty–first century audience A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism INDICE: Notes on Contributors x.Note on Referencing xvii.Acknowledgments xix.PART I The Cultural Context 1.1 Mark Twain and Nation 3Randall Knoper.2 Mark Twain and Human Nature 21Tom Quirk.3 Mark Twain and America?s Christian Mission Abroad 38Susan K. Harris.4 Mark Twain and Whiteness 53Richard S. Lowry.5 Mark Twain and Gender 66Peter Stoneley.6 Twain and Modernity 78T. J. Lustig.7 Mark Twain and Politics 94James S. Leonard.8 The State, it is I: Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists 109Scott Michaelsen.PART II Mark Twain and Others 123.9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists 125Gavin Jones.10 The American Dickens: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens 141Christopher Gair.11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain 157Lawrence I. Berkove.12 The Twain–Cable Combination 172Stephen Railton.13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism 186Peter Messent.PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing 209.14 I don?t know A from B Mark Twain and Orality 211Thomas D. Zlatic.15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing 228Leland Krauth.16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines 243Martin T. Buinicki.17 Mark Twain and the Stage 259Shelley Fisher Fishkin.18 Mark Twain on the Screen 274R. Kent Rasmussen and Mark Dawidziak.PART IV Mark Twain and Travel 291.19 Twain and the Mississippi 293Andrew Dix.20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West 309Gary Scharnhorst.21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe 324Holger Kersten.22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing 338Jeffrey Alan Melton.PART V Mark Twain? Fiction 355.23 Mark Twain?s Short Fiction 357Henry B. Wonham.24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature 371Linda A. Morris.25 Plotting and Narrating Huck 387Victor Doyno.26 Going to Tom?s Hell in Huckleberry Finn 401Hilton Obenzinger.27 History, Civilization, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s Court 416Sam Halliday.28 Mark Twain?s Dialects 431David Lionel Smith.29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd?nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins 441John Bird.30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain 449Forrest G. Robinson.PART VI Mark Twain?s Humor 467.31 Mark Twain?s Visual Humor 469Louis J. Budd.32 Mark Twain and Post–Civil War Humor 485Cameron C. Nickels.33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor 500Gregg Camfield.34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit 513Bruce Michelson.PART VII A Retrospective 531.35 The State of Mark Twain Studies 533Alan Gribben.Index 555
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