Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 27, 2020Readers of Amy Kaplan’s The Social Construction of American Realism (1988) may be surprised to find that the dissertation out of which it developed, “Realism Against Itself,” begins with a chapter on Mark Twain....
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on April 28, 2017 Mark Twain was an immensely popular author. Based on this apparent truth, it has been convenient to regard him as populist as well. Contemporaneous critics dismissed him as “merely a humorist,” a characterization...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 7, 2018My name is Mac Morrison, I am an undergraduate student at Tulane University. I’ve loved Mark Twain’s books since I was a very small child, and I’d like to gain a deeper understanding of the man and his work. In...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 6, 2020It would be grossly inaccurate to call George Steiner, who passed away earlier this week, an Americanist. His reading was cosmopolitan, certainly, and though it included the literature of the nation where he spent...
Originally posted by: Jarrod Roark on March 3, 2020 In 2008 I began my PhD program shortly after I had broken my second metatarsal on a run with former students. At the time, antebellum writers of the gothic and sensational occupied my imagination in the darkness of...
Originally posted by: Thomas Reigstad on November 26, 2018For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through...
Originally posted by: Alan Rankin on October 7, 2019EDITOR’S NOTE: At the Clemens Conference in Hannibal, Missouri in July 2019, Alan Rankin gave a talk entitled “Nina: The Lost Diary of Nina Gabrilowitsch.” What follows is a modified and expanded version of that...
Originally posted by: Miki Pfeffer on November 19, 2019Editor’s Note: Miki Pfeffer, recent Quarry Farm Fellow, gave a lecture for CMTS on Grace King and Mark Twain as part of the Fall 2018 “Trouble Begins” Lecture Series. Her talk, “Getting to Know Mark Twain through...
Originally posted by: Miki Pfeffer on July 19, 2022 Editor’s Note: One of the Center for Mark Twain Studies most important strategic goals is service to the general public. One way that CMTS fulfills this endeavor is the creation of Mark Twain related resource pages...
Originally posted by: Stephen Pasqualina on October 10, 2019In a less-than-famous book titled Green Hills of Africa (1935), Ernest Hemingway famously declared that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Though he...