Mark Twain\u27s Humor: Critical Essays

Contents: Introduction / David E.E. Sloane -- Part I. The early writings of Mark Twain : the growth of the comedian -- \u27My voice is still for Setchell\u27 : a background study of \u27Jim Smiley and his jumping frog\u27 / Edgar M. Branch -- Burlesque travel literature and Mark Twain\u27s Roughing it / Franklin R. Rogers -- From the old Southwest / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- A curious Republican / Louis J. Budd -- Toward the novel / David E.E. Sloane -- Part II. The middle career of Mark Twain from Tom Sawyer to Pudd\u27nhead Wilson : the comedian as major author -- Novels of the week : The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Athenaeum -- On the structure of Tom Sawyer / Walter Blair -- Mark Twain / William Dean Howells -- Trowbridge and Clemens / Rufus A. Coleman -- Mustangs without method / Blackwood\u27s magazine -- Mark Twain and the old time subscription book / George Ade -- Mark Twain on the lecture platform / Will M. Clemens -- Life reviews Huckleberry Finn / Durant Da Ponte -- Huckleberry Finn : the book we love to hate / Leslie A. Fiedler -- A sound heart and a deformed conscience / Henry Nash Smith -- A Connecticut Yankee anticipated : Max Adeler\u27s Fortunate island / Edward F. Foster -- Yankee slang / James M. Cox -- I kind of love small game : Mark Twain\u27s library of literary hogwash / Alan Gribben -- The American claimant : reclamation of a farce / Clyde Grimm -- Mark Twain -- an intimate memory / Henry Watterson -- The book hunter [review of Pudd\u27nhead Wilson] / The Idler -- In re \u27Pudd\u27nhead Wilson\u27 / Martha McCulloch Williams -- \u27The tales he couldn\u27t tell\u27 : Mark Twain, race and culture at the century\u27s end : a social context for Pudd\u27nhead Wilson / Shelley Fisher Fiskin -- Part III. The later career of Mark Twain : the comedian as a cultural representative -- Mark Twain : an inquiry / William Dean Howells -- The international fame of Mark Twain / Archibald Henderson -- An inspired critic / Edith Wyatt -- The anecdotal side of Mark Twain / Ladies\u27 Home Journal -- 3-Mark Twain / A.C. Ward -- Review of Tom Sawyer abroad / The Academy -- \u27Hadleyburg\u27 : Mark Twain\u27s dual attack on banal theology and banal literature / Susan K. Harris -- Is the Philippine policy of the administration just? / John Kendrick Bangs and Mark Twain -- Reconstructing the \u27imagination mill\u27 : the mystery of Mark Twain\u27s late works / Susanne Weil -- Coming back to humor : the comic voice in Mark Twain\u27s autobiography / Michael J. Kiskis -- \u27The mysterious stranger\u27 : absence of the female in Mark Twain biography / Laura E. Skandera-Trombley.https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/english-books/1009/thumbnail.jp