Pudd'nhead Wilson ; and, Those extraordinary twins : authoritative texts, textual introduction, tables of variants, criticism /

Pudd'nhead Wilson ; and, Those extraordinary twins : authoritative texts, textual introduction, tables of variants, criticism / Mark Twain ; edited by Sidney E. Berger.

Presents the complete text of "Pudd'nhead Wilson" and "Those Extraordinary Twins" along with textual notes and a collection of critical reviews and essays on the works.

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Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Authors: Berger, Sidney E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Pudd'nhead Wilson.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Those extraordinary twins.
Twain, Mark.
Twain, Mark > 1835-1910 > The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Twain, Mark. > Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Twain, Mark)
Those extraordinary twins (Twain, Mark)
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.
Fiction.
Commentaries (form)
Novels (texts)
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • The 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 law in Pudd'nhead Wilson / Susan Gillman.

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