附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. Kiskis -- Samuel Clemens as family man and father / Victor A. Doyno -- "To his preferred friends he revealed his true character": Mary Mason Fairbank's disguised debate with Sam Clemens" / J.D. Stahl -- Mark Twain's mechanical marvels / Jeffrey Steinbrink -- Steamboats, cocaine, and paper money: Mark Twain rewriting himself / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Mark Twain, Isabel Lyon, and the "talking cure": negotiating nostalgia and nihilism in the Autobiography / Jennifer L. Zaccara -- The minstrel and the detective: the functions of ethnic caricature in Mark Twain's writings of the 1890's / Henry B. Wonham -- Huck, Jim, and the "black-and-white" fallacy / James S. Leonard -- Humor, sentimentality, and Mark Twain's black characters / David L. Smith -- Black genes and white lies: Twain and the romance of race / Ann M. Ryan -- Mark Twain in large and small / the infinite and the infinitesimal in Twain's late writing / Tom Quirk -- Mark Twain studies and the myth of metaphor / John Bird -- "Who killed Mark Twain?" Long live Samuel Clemens! / Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Gary Scharnhorst.
