Eutsey’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Eutsey discusses religious liberalism’s strong, but often times neglected, influence on Twain and his writings
Tag: Letters From The Earth
M.M. Dawley Lectures on Mark Twain and the “American Adam”
The 2018 Mark Twain Lecture Series, hosted by the Chemung County Historical Society and the Center for Mark Twain Studies, begins on Thursday, August 9 at the Chemung Valley Museum (415 East Water St., Elmira). The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. “‘Well, ain’t you innocent!’: Mark Twain’s Attack on the American Adam” M.M. Dawley, Boston University The trope of the innocent, who reveals […]
A Tragic Spring For Joe Twichell
Saturday, April 21, marked the 108th anniversary of Mark Twain’s passing. For Twain, whose final decade was wracked by overwhelming bereavement, the promise of death’s release was something welcome. By the end of his life, Twain’s sentiments toward life and death were akin to Satan’s musings in Letters From the Earth (1909): Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by […]