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Book SynopsisFollows Mark Twain's last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers.
Trade ReviewIn
Mark Twain, the World, and Me, Susan Harris shows great skill in describing both the pull and the personal stakes that brought her into such a sustained, fruitful engagement with Mark Twain - a cultural icon who seems to radiate 'unlikeness' with regard to her own roots and upbringing. There's no self-indulgence here; instead, we see the high-risk adventure that informs the best literary scholarship." - Bruce Michelson, author of
Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution "This enormously compelling memoir of Harris's attempt to retrace Twain's travels during his 1895-1986 round-the-world lecture tour is more than simply an engaging work of creative nonfiction, it might just be the best book-length work of scholarship yet written on Twain's
Following the Equator." - Joseph Csicsila, coauthor of
Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark TwainTable of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Me, World, Twain: An Introduction
- 1. Pilgrimage
- 2. Pollution: A Narrative
- 3. Money Matters, Or, Gifts for the Dead
- 4. Will the Real Savages Please Stand Up?
- 5. Dreaming
- 6. Staring at Animals
- 7. Chameleons
- 8. Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
