The Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought-provoking essays on an author of enduring preeminence in the American canon. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing. The volume includes a chronology of Twain's life and a list of suggestions for further reading.
Contents:
Mark Twain as an American icon / Louis J. Budd --
The innocent at large: Mark Twain's travel writing / Forrest G. Robinson --
Mark Twain and women / Shelley Fisher Fishkin --
Mark Twain's Civil War: humor's reconstructive writing / Neil Schmitz --
Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and classic American literature / Myra Jehlen --
Black critics and Mark Twain / David Lionel Smith --
Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, race, and blackface / Eric Lott --
Speech acts and social action: Mark Twain and the politics of literary performance / Evan Carton --
How the boss played the game: Twain's critique of imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / John Carlos Rowe --
Mark Twain's travels in the racial occult: Following the equator and the Dream tales / Susan Gillman
Mark Twain's theology: the gods of a brevet Presbyterian / Stanley Brodwin
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