CFP: Mark Twain Circle at SAMLA in Atlanta, GA (November 8-10, 2019)
This panel seeks papers that explore how power is presented in Twain’s works, who holds power, how it is maintained, how power is reinforced, challenged, subverted, or undermined
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Alan Gribben’s Landmark Work to Be Updated in March 2019
The first volume of Mark Twain’s Literary Resources consists of twenty-five chapters explaining the fate of the Clemens family book collection
CFP: Nineteenth Century American Forum of the MLA in Seattle, WA (January 9-12, 2020)
The Nineteenth Century American Forum is planning to sponsor three panels at MLA 2020 in Seattle
“The Texan Steer”: A Rediscovered Sketch by Mark Twain?
Dr. Seybold discusses a sketch which circulated under Mark Twain’s byline in 1870. But was it really him?
The Park Church Culture Into Which Mark Twain Married: An Introduction to “Mark Twain’s Music Box”
A reflection on the influence of Elmira and Park Church upon Mark Twain.
“Mark Twain’s Music Box” & Cosmopolitan Twain
Tomorrow night – Friday, February 8th – at the Park Church in Elmira the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes will be performing “Mark Twain’s Music Box,” a program loosely based upon the music which Samuel Clemens chose to have programmed into the expensive customized music box his wife gave him as a birthday present during their extended visit to Europe in 1878. “Mark Twain’s Music Box” was originally performed […]
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at MLA in Seattle, WA (January 9-12, 2020)
“Mark Twain and Globalism” Although Mark Twain is often characterized as a quintessentially American writer, he is almost as frequently noted as a citizen of the world. The Mark Twain Circle seeks proposals for papers that investigate Twain’s writings in a transnational context, interpreting representations of the American and the other in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, international politics, and cultural contact. MLA requires that presenters be members of MLA […]
Special Issue of American Literary Realism dedicated to Twain’s Joan of Arc
The special issue is co-edited by former Quarry Farm Fellows.
Mark Twain: Television Star
David Bianculli of Rowan University and NPR’s Fresh Air catalogs the numerous appearances of Mark Twain on TV.
Of Walls & Wangdoodles
Slang from Twain’s time has found new life in contemporary debates.