Showing papers by "Forrest G. Robinson published in 1995"

The Cambridge companion to Mark Twain

Abstract: Preface Chronology of Mark Twain's life 1. Mark Twain as an American icon Louis J. Budd 2. The innocent at large: Mark Twain's travel writing Forrest G. Robinson 3. Mark Twain and women Shelley Fisher Fishkin 4. Mark Twain's civil war: humor's reconstructive writing Neil Schmitz 5. Banned in Concord: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and classic American literature Myra Jehlen 6. Black critics and Mark Twain D. L. Smith 7. Mr Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain race and blackface Eric Lott 8. Speech acts and social action: Mark Twain and the politics of literary performance Evan Carton 9. How the boss played the game: Twain's critique of imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court John Carlos Rowe 10. Mark Twain's travels in the racial occult: Following the Equator and the dream tales Susan Gillman 11. Mark Twain's theology: the Gods of a Brevet presterian Stanley Brodwin Further reading Index.

An "Unconscious and Profitable Cerebration": Mark Twain and Literary Intentionality

Abstract: Scholars have been guilty of assuming that Mark Twain was fully self-conscious in his literary intentions. The liabilities entailed by this assumption are manifest in Henry B. Wonham9s recent Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale. A survey of the evidence bearing on this pivotal question reveals that Mark Twain was an artist of decidedly inchoate intentions, and that he was perfectly willing to admit it. Thus the burden of proof in this matter rests most heavily on those who want to characterize Mark Twain as a highly self-conscious writer.