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Overview
This book uses new historicist techniques to deconstruct 5 major novels of Mark Twain in order to achieve a cultural critique of America's Gilded Age. It is this application of modern critical techniques to the criticism of Twain's works that makes this book so unique. Dreaming Mark Twain will interest students studying his works as well as American literature students interested in an interdisciplinary study of history and literature. Contents: "Translating Pagan Hours into Christian Miles"; Geographies of the [American] Mind in Innocents Abroad; Myth Making and Myth Breaking in the Gilded Age; Huckleberry Finn: "Self" Constructions and the Pursuit of the Virgin Land; The Connecticut Yankee: Yankee Dreams and Exploding Egos; Hank Morgan's "Will to Power"; Friedrich Nietzsche and the Dark Side of the American Dream; "He Didn't Mean No Harm By It": Mark Twain's Existential Mysterious Stranger; Twain Matters: An Afterword; Works Cited; Works Consulted; General Index; Notes.