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Pudd'nhead Wilson ; : And, Those Extraordinary Twins : Authoritative Texts, Textual Introduction, Tables of Variants, Criticism

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Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- End-of-line hyphenation in this volume -- Text of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Text of those extraordinary twins -- Textual Introduction and tables of variants -- Pudd'nhead Wilson and those extraordinary twins: Textual introduction -- Textual notes -- Those extraordinary twins -- Appendix 1: Weather signs passage deleted from Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Appendix 2: Words deleted from chapter 9 of those extraordinary twins -- Criticism -- Reviews: From the idler (August 1894) / William Livingston Alden -- From the athenaeum (January 19, 1895) -- From Cosmopolitan (January 1895) / Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen -- From the critic (May 11, 1895) -- From the booklover's magazine (February 1904) / T.M. Parrott -- Essays: [Mark Twain's Presentation of Slavery] / Bernard De Voto -- "As free as any cretur. . ." / Leslie Fiedler -- Mark Twain's neglected classic: The Moral Astringency of Pudd'nhead Wilson / F.R. Leavis -- [Pudd'nhead Wilson as criticism of the dominant culture] / Henry Nash Smith -- Ironic stranger / James M. Cox -- Mark Twain and the south: Pudd'nhead Wilson / Arlin Turner -- Pudd'nhead Wilson: Parable of property / George M. Spangler -- Incipient wilderness: Study of Pudd'nhead Wilson / John M. Brand -- Blackness and the adamic myth in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson / Stanley Brodwin -- Black and white curse: Pudd'nhead Wilson and miscegenation / Arthur G. Pettit -- Narrative action and structural symmetry in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Barry Wood -- Text that wrote itself: Identifying the automated subject in Pudd'nhead Wilson and those extraordinary twins / John Matson -- Pudd'nhead Wilson and the roots of existential heroism / Andrew Jay Hoffman -- Beneath the veil: Clothing, race, and gender in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson / Linda A. Morris -- Roxana's plot / Carolyn Porter -- Ties that bind: Race and sex in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Myra Jehlen -- Fatal speculations: Murder, money, and manners in Pudd'nhead Wilson / John Carlos Rowe -- "Sure Identifiers": Race, science, and the waw in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Susan Gillman -- Bibliography.
Contents: Those extraordinary twins.

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A Norton critical edition.



PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 471 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393925358
9780393925357

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Berger, Sidney E.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

SUBJECTS
Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910.
Infants switched at birth -- Fiction.
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Conjoined twins -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Missouri -- Fiction.
Legal stories.