Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction / Sara deSaussure Davis
Part I: America Mythologizes Twain
Collecting the Works of Mark Twain / John C. Gerber
"Norman Rockwell Sentimentality": The Rockwell Illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn / Allison R. Ensor
Part II: Twain Mythologizes Twain
Autobiography as Property: Mark Twain and His Legend / Alan Gribben
Mark Twain, "Funniest Man in the World" / Henry Nash Smith
A "Talent for Posturing": The Achievement of Mark Twain's Public Personality / Louis J. Budd
Life on the Mississippi Revisited / James M. Cox
Part III: Twain Mythologizes America and the Universe
Mark Twain and the Myth of the West / Harold H. Kolb, Jr.
Mark Twain and the Myth of the Daring Jest / Stanley Brodwin
Notes
Contributors
Index