Mark Twain Circle Zoom Discussion (2024 Quarry Farm Symposium)

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Please join the Mark Twain Circle on Wednesday, November 20 at 4:00pm EST for a discussion of three papers presented at the recent 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium “Gilded Ages: Humor, Literature, and Society.”

The format is group discussion (no presentations). Make sure to view the videos in advance.

Charline Jao (Cornell University), “Mark Twain’s False Alarms”

Christopher J. Gilbert (Assumption University), “Dear God, Let Us Praise Mark Twain’s Satanic Sense of Humor”

Ann M. Ryan (Le Moyne College), “Gilding Jim and Nat: Mark Twain and the Specter of the Angry Black Man”