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Notes on Contributors. Note on Referencing. Acknowledgments. PART IThe Cultural Context. 1 Mark Twain and Nation (Randall Knoper). 2 MarkTwain and Human Nature (Tom Quirk). 3 Mark Twain and America's ChristianMission Abroad (Susan K. Harris). 4 Mark Twain and Whiteness (Richard S.Lowry). 5 Mark Twain and Gender (Peter Stoneley). 6 Twain and Modernity (T.J. Lustig). 7 Mark Twain and Politics (James S. Leonard). 8 "The State, itis I": Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists (Scott Michaelsen).PART II Mark Twain and Others. 9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists(Gavin Jones). 10 The "American Dickens": Mark Twain and Charles Dickens(Christopher Gair). 11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain (Lawrence I.Berkove). 12 The Twain-Cable Combination (Stephen Railton). 13 Mark Twain,William Dean Howells, and Realism (Peter Messent). PART III Mark Twain:Publishing and Performing. 14 "I don't know A from B": Mark Twain andOrality (Thomas D. Zlatic). 15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing(Leland Krauth). 16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines(Martin T. Buinicki). 17 Mark Twain and the Stage (Shelley Fisher Fishkin).18 Mark Twain on the Screen (R. Kent Rasmussen and Mark Dawidziak). PART IVMark Twain and Travel. 19 Twain and the Mississippi (Andrew Dix). 20 MarkTwain and the Literary Construction of the American West (Gary Scharnhorst).21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe (Holger Kersten). 22 Mark Twain andTravel Writing (Jeffrey Alan Melton). PART V Mark Twain's Fiction. 23 MarkTwain's Short Fiction (Henry B. Wonham). 24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer andThe Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature (Linda A. Morris). 25Plotting and Narrating "Huck" (Victor Doyno). 26 Going to Tom's Hell inHuckleberry Finn (Hilton Obenzinger). 27 History, "Civilization," and AConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Sam Halliday). 28 Mark Twain'sDialects (David Lionel Smith). 29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: TheTrouble With The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy ThoseExtraordinary Twins (John Bird). 30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writingof Mark Twain (Forrest G. Robinson). PART VI Mark Twain's Humor. 31 MarkTwain's Visual Humor (Louis J. Budd). 32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor(Cameron C. Nickels). 33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor (Gregg Camfield). 34Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit (Bruce Michelson). PART VII ARetrospective. 35 The State of Mark Twain Studies (Alan Gribben). Index.