Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

by Twain,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780393925357
• ISBN10: 0393925358
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included.#xA0; "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	xi
Preface to the Second Edition	xv
End-of-Line Hyphenation in This Volume	xix
The Text of Pudd'nhead Wilson	xxi
The Text of Those Extraordinary Twins	123	(64)
Textual Introduction and Tables of Variants	187	(52)
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: Textual Introduction	189	(10)
Pudd'nhead Wilson	199	(26)
Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives	199	(7)
Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives (Lengthy Passages)	206	(8)
Emendations of the Copy-Text: Accidentals	214	(5)
Rejected Variants: Substantives	219	(1)
Textual Notes	219	(6)
Those Extraordinary Twins	225	(10)
Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives	225	(2)
Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives (Lengthy Passages)	227	(3)
Emendations of the Copy-Text: Accidentals	230	(2)
Rejected Variants: Substantives	232	(1)
Textual Notes	232	(3)
Appendix 1: The Weather Signs Passage Deleted from Pudd'nhead Wilson	235	(2)
Appendix 2: Words Deleted from Chapter 9 of Those Extraordinary Twins	237	(2)
Criticism	239	(226)
Reviews	241	(6)
From The Idler (August 1894)	241	(1)
William Livingston Alden
From The Athenaeum (January 19, 1895)	241	(1)
From Cosmopolitan (January 1895)	242	(1)
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
From the Critic (May 11, 1895)	243	(2)
From the Booklover's Magazine (February 1904)	245	(2)
T. M. Parrott
Essays	247	(218)
[Mark Twain's Presentation of Slavery]	247	(1)
Bernard De Voto
``As Free as Any Cretur. . .''	248	(9)
Leslie Fiedler
Mark Twain's Neglected Classic: The Moral Astringency of Pudd'nhead Wilson	257	(14)
F. R. Leavis
[Pudd'nhead Wilson as Criticism of the Dominant Culture]	271	(7)
Henry Nash Smith
The Ironic Stranger	278	(8)
James M. Cox
Mark Twain and the South: Pudd'nhead Wilson	286	(9)
Arlin Turner
Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Parable of Property	295	(8)
George M. Spangler
The Incipient Wilderness: A Study of Pudd'nhead Wilson	303	(9)
John M. Brand
Blackness and the Adamic Myth in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson	312	(10)
Stanley Brodwin
The Black and White Curse: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Miscegenation	322	(14)
Arthur G. Pettit
Narrative Action and Structural Symmetry in Pudd'nhead Wilson	336	(11)
Barry Wood
The Text That Wrote Itself: Identifying the Automated Subject in Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins	347	(24)
John Matson
Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Roots of Existential Heroism	371	(10)
Andrew Jay Hoffman
Beneath the Veil: Clothing, Race, and Gender in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson	381	(14)
Linda A. Morris
Roxana's Plot	395	(16)
Carolyn Porter
The Ties That Bind: Race and Sex in Pudd'nhead Wilson	411	(15)
Myra Jehlen
Fatal Speculations: Murder, Money, and Manners in Pudd'nhead Wilson	426	(19)
John Carlos Rowe
``Sure Identifiers'': Race, Science, and the Law in Pudd'nhead Wilson	445	(20)
Susan Gillman
Selected Bibliography	465