List of Contributors
Preface
Chromology of Twains’’s Life
1 Mark Twain as an American Icon
2 The Innocent and Large:Mark Twain’’s Traver Writing
3 mark Twain and Women
4 Mark Twain’’s Civivl War:Homor’’s Reconstructive Writing
5 Banned in Concord:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature
6 Black Critics and Mark Twain
7 Mr.Clemens and Jim Crow:Twain,Race,and Blackface
8 Speech Acts and Social Action:Mark Twain and the Politics of Literary Performance
9 How the Boss Played the Game:Twain’’s Critique of Imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’’s Court
10 Mark Twains’’ Travels in the Racial Occult:Following the Equator and the Dream Tales
11 Mark Twains’’ Theology:The Gods of a Brevet Presbyterian
Futher Reading
Index