1 Mark Twain as an American Icon LOUIS J. BUDD 1
2 The Innocent at Large: Mark Twain s Travel Writing FORREST G. ROBINSON 27
3 Mark Twain and Women SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN 52
4 Mark Twain s Civil War: Humor s Reconstructive Writing NEIL SCHMITZ 74
5 Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature MYRA JEHLEN 93
6 Black Critics and Mark Twain DAVID LIONEL SMITH 116
7 Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, Race, and Blackface ERIC LOTT 129
8 Speech Acts and Social Action: Mark Twain and the Politics of Literary Performance EVAN CARTON 153
9 How the Boss Played the Game: Twain s Critique of Imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court JOHN CARLOS ROWE 175
10 Mark Twain s Travels in the Racial Occult: Following the Equator and the Dream Tales SUSAN GILLMAN 193
11 Mark Twain s Theology: The Gods of a Brevet Presbyterian STANLEY BRODWIN 220
Further Reading 249
Index 251