Gillman’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Susan Gillman explores the intersection of caste, orientalism, and occultism in FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
Tag: Following the Equator
Final Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Explores Caste in FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
Susan Gillman (UC, Santa Cruz) will present on Wednesday, May 29 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn
Hunt’s Park Church Lecture Now Available
Hunt discusses Twain’s relationship with the suffrage movement, a section from FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR, and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War and Trade with Laleh Khalili
On the past, present, & future of the Suez Canal.
On A New Episode of The American Vandal, Susan K. Harris Discusses Her New Book on Mark Twain’s World Tour & Much More
The third episode of the inaugural season of The American Vandal features Susan K. Harris talking to Matt Seybold about following the equator and much more.
The Hartford House Hosts a Conversation with Susan K. Harris, Accomplished Mark Twain Scholar
The talk is scheduled for Thursday, August 6 at 5:30pm EST
Dreaming India The Marvelous & Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain’s world lecture tour in the mid-1890s, which he recounts in Following the Equator, was generally unpleasant for him. Not only did the humiliating stigma of bankruptcy that prompted the voyage haunt him, but while circumventing the globe with his wife Olivia and daughter Clara, Twain frequently suffered illness and depression. In South Africa, for example, Livy noted that her husband “has not as much courage as I wish […]