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Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Needing no introduction?
- From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain
- The sense of Mark Twain's humor
- Marketing Twain
- Innocents abroad, I: going East
- Innocents abroad, II: traveling to unlearn
- Roughing it going West
- The lecture tours
- The Whittier after dinner speech
- Old times on the Mississippi
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The performances of Tom Sawyer.