Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67075-3 - The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain Peter Messent Index More information Index Adams, Henry 14 Carson City 5, 23 Ament, Joseph 2 Cather, Willa 111 American, The 43, 44 Chang and Eng 27–8 American Nervousness 50–1 Cincinnati 4 American Publishing Company 6, 47 Civil War 2, 4, 5, 12, 14, 15, 16, 24, Anderson, Sherwood 111 66–7 ‘Angel Fish’ 9–10 see also Twain, Mark: works – Angel’s Camp, California 25 Innocents Abroad, The; Life on Arac, Jonathan 109–10, 111–12 the Mississippi; ‘Private History see also Twain, Mark – critical of a Campaign That Failed, reception of works: Adventures The’; Roughing It of Huckleberry Finn ‘Civilisation in the United States’ 88 Arnold, Matthew 88–9 Clemens, Clara 6, 7, 10 see also Twain, Mark – works: Clemens, Henry 3, 4, 60, 64 Connecticut Yankee, debate with Clemens, Jane Lampton 1 Matthew Arnold Clemens, Jean 6, 7, 10 Ashcroft, Ralph 10 Clemens, John Marshall 1, 3, 20–1 Atlantic Monthly 7, 59 Clemens, Langdon 6 Clemens, Mollie 1 Barnum, P.T. 27 Clemens, Olivia Langdon 6, 8, 38, 40, Beard, George 50–1 66 Bercovitch, Sacvan 110 Clemens, Orion 1–2, 3, 4 Bermuda 41, 50 Clemens, Pamela 3 Bixby, Horace 4, 60 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Bliss, Elisha 5 see Twain, Mark Bombay 21 Clemens, Susy 6, 8, 88 Boston Carpet-Bag 2 Colt Arms factory 89 Bridgman, Richard 47 Colt, Samuel 11, 34 Buffalo Express 6 Columbus, Christopher 30 Conway, Moncure Daniel 38 Cable, George Washington 111 Crane, Susan 6 Calaveras County 5 see also Twain, Mark: works – Dangerous Intimacy 9–10 ‘Jumping Frog of Calaveras Darwinism 37 County, The’ Dempsey, Terrell 3 132 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67075-3 - The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain Peter Messent Index More information Index 133 Dickens, Charles 39 Lyon, Isabel 10 Dickinson, Emily 100 Lystra, Karen 9 Dreiser, Theodore 111 DuBois, W.E.B. 77, 111 Malory, Thomas 95 Dunbar, Paul 111 Marion Rangers 4 Mark Twain: God’s Fool 9 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 25, 40 McGuinn, Warner T. 113 Mencken, H.L. 109 Farewell to Arms, A 110 Mississippi River 3–4 Faulkner, William 61 see also Civil War; and Mark Twain – Fishkin, Shelley Fisher 2, 82, 84 works: Adventures of Fitzgerald, F. Scott 111 Huckleberry Finn; Adventures of Florida, Mo. 1 Tom Sawyer, The; Life on the Fort Pillow massacre 61 Mississippi; Pudd’nhead Wilson Missouri Courier 2 Genoa 30 Mitchell, Lee Clark 65 Great Gatsby, The 109 Moby Dick 109 Green Hills of Africa 73 Molly Maguires 67 Morrison, Toni 11–12, 110 Hannibal 1–3, 64–5, 66 Morte D’Arthur 95 Hannibal Journal 2 Murrell, John A. 61, 71 Harris, George W. 74 Harris, Joel Chandler 111 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Hartford, Conn. 5, 6–8, 34, 40, 89 Douglass, The 114 Hawaii 5, 40 Nevada 4–5 Heath Anthology of American Literature New Orleans 4 (5th edition) 110 NewYork3,4,5,8 Hemingway, Ernest 73, 110 New York Herald 119 Hill, Hamlin 9 ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ 110 Paige Typesetter 7 Howells, William Dean 7, 10, 40, 51, Paine, Albert Bigelow 38 59, 66, 77–8, 79, 98, 111 Paris 29 Philadelphia 3 Jackson, Andrew 71 Philippine-American War 8, 13 James, Henry 43, 44 Porter, Katherine Anne 62 Powers, Ron 2, 21 Kemble, E.W. 99 Keokuk 3 Quaker City 5, 6, 39, 40, 47 Quarry Farm, Elmira 6 Langdon, Charles 6 Langdon, Jervis 6 race Lewis, Sinclair 111 see Mark Twain: race Lincoln, Abraham 85 Reconstruction (and after) 85 London 22, 38–9 Rogers, Henry H. 8 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 40 Rome 30 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67075-3 - The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain Peter Messent Index More information 134 Index St Louis 3, 4 Mencken, H.L., and 109, 111; San Francisco 4, 5, 19 Morrison, Toni, and ‘classic San Francisco Alta California 5, 25 literature’ 11, 110; race, and Scarlet Letter, The 109 112–14; thematic oppositions Scott, Walter in 112, 114; ‘thick’ literary see Twain, Mark – works: Life on the context of 111; Trilling, Lionel, Misssissippi the ‘liberal imagination’, and Sears, John F. 53 111–12; see also works: ‘Sicily Burns’s Wedding’ 74 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Smith, David L. 83 class identity, and 115 Spanish-American War 119 masculinity, and 115 ‘Stormfield’ 10 professional writer, as 115 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 111 progressive view of history, and Sut Lovingood 74 114–15 sexual politics, and 115 Tennyson, Alfred 91 transnationalism, and 115–19: see Trilling, Lionel 111–12 also transnationalism (below) see also Twain, Mark – critical see also Connecticut Yankee reception of works: Adventures (reception of); Following the of Huckleberry Finn Equator (reception of); Twain, Mark Pudd’nhead Wilson (reception African Americans, and 2–3 of) see also Twain, Mark: race death 10, 41 American Indian, and 29, 42 early years 1–3, 64–5 see also Twain, Mark: race evolutionary theory, and 36–8 anti-Imperialism 8–9, 13, 17, 97, expatriation 7–8, 39–40 115–19 family tragedies 4, 6, 8, 10, 60, see also works: Following the 88 Equator financial problems 7–8 birth 11 honorary degree (Oxford) 40 Chinese-Americans, and 19 humour 11–12, 13, 15, 16, 17, Civil War, and 18–19, 22–38, 39, 84, 97–8, see Civil War; Marion Rangers; 107, 108 and ‘Private History of a Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Campaign That Failed, The’ and 32–4 critical reception of works 109–19 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 31–2 reception of 12–13, 109–14: aphorisms, use of 22–3 Arac, Jonathan, and black humour 36–8 ‘hypercanonization’ of 109–10, burlesque 24, 36 111–12; construction of the Connecticut Yankee in King subject, and 112; cultural Arthur’s Court, A, and 34–6 pluralism, and 110, 112, 114; digression, use of 24, 25, 27 exceptionalist discourse, and ‘Double-Barreled Detective Story, 114; global reception, and 114; A’, and 36 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67075-3 - The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain Peter Messent Index More information Index 135 hoax, use of 23–4, 27, 54–5 Equator; Innocents Abroad, The; Innocents Abroad, The, and 29–31: Life on the Mississippi; Roughing ethnocentric humour in 29–31 It; Tramp Abroad, A incongruity, and 28–9 travel books 12, 14, 20, 27, 38–65, 66 ‘Jumping Frog’ story, analysis of illustrations 47 25–7 narrative method 47: see also ‘Man That Corrupted works: Following the Equator, Hadleyburg, The,’ and 36 Innocents Abroad, The, Life on ‘Personal Habits of the Siamese the Mississippi, Roughing It, Twins,’ analysis of 27–9 Tramp Abroad, A phonetic humour 22, 74 Whittier birthday speech 40 ‘Was the World Made for Man?’, works and 36–8 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2, lecturing 5, 6, 7, 8, 38, 40–1 7, 11, 12–13, 14, 16, 20, 32–4, letters 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 38, 51, 71, 39, 51, 59, 73–87, 97, 98, 106, 98, 113 109–14, 115, 118: comic effects, Mark Twain persona 17–21 and 32–4; critical reception different shapes and identities 109–14; (see also Twain, Mark: 17–20, 21, 29 critical reception of works); see also pseudonym defamiliarisation technique, in piloting 75–6; ending of 12–13, 81; see Civil War; Mississippi River ‘evasion’ sequence in 80, 83–6; and works: Life on the Jim, representation of 76, 81–4, Mississippi 85–7; power dynamics in 80–1; pseudonym 1, 17 race in 12–13, 76–7, 81–7: see see also Mark Twain persona also Jim, representation of; raft race sequences in 85–7; realism, and slavery 2–3, 21 74–5, 77–80; religion in 32–4, see also Twain, Mark: African 75–6; use of vernacular in 73–4, Americans, and; American 87; see also realism Indian, and; Chinese- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 2, Americans, and; critical 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 31–2, 39, 59, reception of works, and works: 64, 65–72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 98, 99: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; boundaries and fences in 66, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The; 68, 69–71; comic effects in Following the Equator; Innocents 31–2; Indian Joe, and 13, Abroad, The; Life on the 69–71, 72, 77; modernisation Mississippi; Pudd’nhead Wilson and anti-modernism, and realism 15–17, 97–8, 100 66–8; play and pleasure in transnationalism 25, 38–9, 41, 87–9, 68–9, 71–2; punishment and 110–11, 115–19 discipline in 66–8; race, and 13, definition 115–16: see also critical 72, 76; style 73; tensions and reception of works and works: paradoxes in 66, 71–2; Tom’s Connecticut Yankee in King limitations as a protagonist Arthur’s Court, A; Following the 71–2 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67075-3 - The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain Peter Messent Index More information 136 Index Twain, Mark (cont.) 117–18; transnationalism and American Claimant, The 7, 15, 116–18 96–7 Gilded Age, The 6–7, 14–15, 84 Autobiography 9, 17, 21 ‘How I Edited an Agricultural ‘Bloody Massacre Near Carson, A’ Paper’ 18–19 23–4 Innocents Abroad, The 5–6, 12, 19, ‘Celebrated Jumping Frog of 20–1, 29–31, 39, 41–6, 47, 55, Calaveras County’ 23 88, 118: comic techniques in Celebrated Jumping Frog of 29–31; conventional pieties, Calaveras County, and Other and 45–6; European art, and 43; Sketches 5 Henry James’s The American, ‘Concerning the Jews’ 36 and 43; Milan bath-house Connecticut Yankee in King episode 43–4; Milan Cathedral Arthur’s Court, A 7, 8, 11, 13, scene 20–1, 46; post-Civil War 16, 34–6, 39, 88, 89–98, 104, context, and 42; race, and 29, 114: anti-imperialism, and 34, 41, 42; textual contradictions in 97; debate with Matthew 42–6; transnationalism, and Arnold, and 88–91, 95, 96–7; 41–6; travellers vs tourists, and Hank Morgan and modernity 42–3, 45–6, 47, 49; xenophobia, in 34–6, 89, 90–1, 93–4, 95, 97; and 43–4 Hank Morgan and Morgan le ‘Jumping Frog of Calaveras Fay 92–3; Hank Morgan and County, The’ 5, 24–7: Civil technology 35–6, 93–4; Hank War, and 24–5; comic effects in Morgan: democracy vs.