Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Note on Citations
Part 1 Overviews
	Chapter 1 Mark Twain on Youth and Aging
	Chapter 2 “Same Damned Fools”: Mark Twain and the Deceptive Promise of Youth
		Notes
	Chapter 3 Children’s Literature in the Nineteenth Century
	Chapter 4 Mark Twain’s Lifelong Reading
Part 2 The Clemens Family
	Chapter 5 Sam and His Siblings
	Chapter 6 Sam and Livy as Parents
	Chapter 7 Langdon Clemens and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
		Notes
	Chapter 8 Susy Clemens: Defined by Her Death
	Chapter 9 Clara Clemens: The “Bay”
	Chapter 10 Jean Clemens: A Family Reclaimed
Part 3  Sam Clemens’s Life Experiences
	Chapter 11 A Dialogue on Mark Twain’s Autobiography
	Chapter 12 Sam’s Boyhood Friends
	Chapter 13 Health, Disease, and Children
	Chapter 14 Mark Twain’s Angelfish
Part 4  Mark Twain’s Writings
	Chapter 15 Early Stories and Sketches
	Chapter 16 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
	Chapter 17 The Prince and the Pauper
	Chapter 18 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
		Note
	Chapter 19 Pudd’nhead Wilson
	Chapter 20 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
		Joan of Arc’s youthful and adult readers
		An allegory with manly features
		Joan among the feminists: Childhood and motherhood
	Chapter 21 Gender Bending as Child’s Play
	Chapter 22 Orphans and Adoption
Part 5 Modern Perspectives
	Chapter 23 Black and White Youth in Mark Twain’s Hannibal
		Note
	Chapter 24 Mark Twain and the Movies
	Chapter 25 Mark Twain Meets Generation Z
		Setting the scene
		Mark Twain and the “Millennials”
		Mark Twain and Gen Z
		Moving forward
	Chapter 26 A Secondary School Perspective
Works Cited
	1. Mark Twain writings
	2. Other works
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index