A Historical Guide to Mark Twain

by Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

• ISBN13: 9780195132922
• ISBN10: 0195132920
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice,journalist, steamboat pilot, lapsed Confederate soldier, and miner, remains tothis day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers.Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide toMark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, includingreligion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of theHistorical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, abrief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of theauthor's life and times.

Author Biography

Harold K. Bush, Jr. teaches American literature and culture at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri Gregg Camfield is a professor of American literature at the University of the Pacific Shelley Fisher Fishkin is a professor of American studies and English and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Susan K. Harris is professor of American literature at Penn State University Forrest G. Robinson is professor of American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz Robert Weir is an associate professor of liberal studies at Bay Path College, Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He is currently a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in New Zealand Jim Zwick has published numerous articles about the Anti-Imperialist League and Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings. He is also the creator of the Mark Twain, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935, and other sites at BoondocksNet.com

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(10)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Mark Twain, 1835--1910: A Brief Biography	13	(42)
Forrest Robinson
TWAIN IN HIS TIME
``A Moralist in Disguise'': Mark Twain and American Religion	55	(40)
Harold K. Bush, Jr.
A Republican Artisan in the Court of King Capital: Mark Twain and Commerce	95	(32)
Gregg Camfield
Mark Twain and Race	127	(36)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Mark Twain and Gender	163	(32)
Susan K. Harris
Mark Twain and Social Class	195	(32)
Robert E. Weir
Mark Twain and Imperialism	227	(30)
Jim Zwick
Illustrated Chronology	257	(22)
Bibliographical Essay	279	(20)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Contributors	299	(4)
Index	303