Court Trials in Mark Twain and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9789401182447 / Angielski / Miękka / 1958 / 178 str.

D. M. Mackeithan

Opis

The major section of this volume, dealing with court trials in Mark Twain, is here published for the first time with the of the discussion of the trial of Silas Phelps. The exception account of this trial and the essay entitled "The Source of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" were originally published to gether as "Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" in Studia Neophilologica in 1953 (XXV, 161-179). In this section I tried to retain at least a little of the quality of Twain in retelling the stories and on this basis alone it should be judged. The other essays appeared, respectively, in the Philological Quarterly for October, 1953 (XXXII, 353-365), the Tennessee Historical Quarterly for September, 1952 (XI, 246-253), the Southern Folklore Quarterly for December, 1953 (XVII, 241-243), the Philological Quarterly for July, 1948 (XXVII, 276-279), Modern Language Notes for April, 1948 (LXIII, 221-228), and the University of Texas Studies in English for 1949 (XXVIII, 2 0 257- 7 )."

Spis treści

Court Trials in Mark Twain.- I. Introduction.- II. The Trial of Laura Hawkins in The Gilded Age.- III. The Trial of Muff Potter in Tom Sawyer.- IV. The Trial of Luigi Capello in Pudd’nhead Wilson.- V. The Trial of Joan of Arc in Joan of Arc.- VI. The Trial of Silas Phelps in Tom Sawyer, Detective.- VII. The Trial of Father Peter in The Mysterious Stranger.- Other Essays.- VIII. Mark Twain’s Letters of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.- IX. Mark Twain’s Story of the Bull and the Bees.- X. Bull Rides Described by’ scroggins’, G. W. Harris, and Mark Twain.- XI. The Occasion of Mark Twain’s Speech On Foreign Critics.- XII. More About Mark Twain’s War with English Critics of America.- XIII. Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad and Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon.- XIV. The Source of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, Detective.