Past Quadrennial Conferences and Symposia
…The Chicago of Europe and Other Tales of Foreign Travel (Union Square Press, 2009). Second CMTS Symposium “en route: Mark Twain’s Travel Books: A Tramp Abroad and Following the Equator“ October 15 and…
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2019 Quarry Farm Fellows
…travel writing in Chapter 4, “Pacific in Repose: Genial Travel Writing and the Lure of the Polynesia,” which focuses on the centrality of comic geniality to Americans’ visions of the…
Athens By Moonlight: Mark Twain Tours Ancient Greece in The Innocents Abroad
…(read Athens) is special. One passage from a traveler a decade before Twain’s travels can provide a fair representation of the disinterest tourists on the whole had for any current…
CMTS is Proud to Announce Our 2019 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows!
…act, and the missionary, who gets his comeuppance for cultural and religious imposition. I will examine other elements of Twain’s travel writing in Chapter 4, “Pacific in Repose: Genial Travel…
2021 Quarry Farm Symposium “Mark Twain and The West: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of ROUGHING IT””
…(2002) and co-editor of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader (2009). He has published articles on Mark Twain, humor, and travel writing in Studies in American Humor, South…
Twain for Teachers: Huckleberry Finn in an Era of Resurgent Bigotry
A recent issue of NCTE’s English Journal includes a Special Section on “Teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The editors open the section by acknowledging it “may offend some readers” and…
Recalling “Epoch-Eclipse & Apocalypse” & Anticipating August 21 Eclipse
…swine provides an extreme instance of the realization that the line between reality and unreality is narrow. Hank’s burlesque narration reflects on the similarly subjective and ‘unrealistic’ nature of his…
Encountering Mark Twain in Palestine
…one that has been excessively appropriated by the Zionist movement while at the same time rejected by Palestinians. Twain in this travelogue consistently satirizes Europeans, his fellow travellers, The Holy…
2018 Quarry Farm Fellows
…of Twain’s creative process can be traced to his travel notebooks, and then followed through the Alta letters he composed while travelling to the revisions he made while preparing The Innocents Abroad. By closely…
Tom Sawyer Had A Dream And It Shot Him
…Travel [3] and dated “Filladelfy, May 25, 1845,” Major Jones addresses “Mr. Thompson” as he usually does and sorrowfully comments on what he sees as the “miserable” life and freedom…