All 2024 CMTS Lectures Are Now Available

The lectures from the 2024 Spring & Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series, the 2024 Park Church Summer Lecture Series, and the 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium are now available. CMTS had the opportunity to record 27 talks from established and emerging scholars working in the field of Mark Twain Studies and other related fields. We hope these support and push forward the study of Mark Twain and his texts in all […]

Neoliberal Rationality in The Old Gilded Age: Introductory Address at 2018 Quarry Farm Symposium

At the outset of his chapter on “The Economics of American Literary Realism” in The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics (published today, by the way), Henry Wonham asks whether “the diverse set of writers generally aligned with the aesthetic disposition of realism…share an overriding interpretation of the economic conditions that inspired [Mark] Twain and [Charles Dudley] Warner to give [the Gilded Age] its notorious moniker?” The 2018 Quarry Farm Symposium on “American […]