Mark Twain (eBook)

Stephen Railton is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous books include Fenimore Cooper: A Study of his Imagination (1978) and Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance (1991). He is the creator of two major websites on Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture and Mark Twain in His Times.

List of Figures.

Preface.

1. Going East: Innocents Abroad.

2. Going West: Roughing It.

3. Going Home: Tom Sawyer.

4. Running Away: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

5. Lost in Time: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Cour.

6. Looking for Refuge - Pudd'nhead Wilson and
"Hadleyburg".

Appendix: Mark Twain in His Times: An Electronic Archive.

Notes.

Index.

"A concise, yet amazingly rich, informative,
well-researched, and readable introduction to Mark Twain's major
works, from Innocents Abroad to Pudd'nhead Wilson. In
his fresh and helpful interpretations Stephen Railton, developer of
the popular website 'Mark Twain in His Times,' provides
relevant biographical and historical backgrounds and incorporates a
broad spectrum of criticism." Werner Sollors, Harvard
University

"Stephen Railton offers a highly readable and crisply argued
discussion of Samuel Clemens' literary persona Mark Twain as public
performance and of the relationship Clemens nurtured and continues
to nurture with his readers...A most useful primer in the social
and aesthetic impact of Mark Twain's art." Michael J. Kiskis,
Elmira College

"Even though Mark Twain (as Samuel Clemens) did die, Railton's
book by its very existence proves that Mark Twain still lives, in
his works, the legacy of his life, nearly ninety-four years after
his physical demise. Mark Twain is dead. Long live Mark Twain!"
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