This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors' introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd'nhead Wilson as...
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This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors' introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd'nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender.In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, an
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Contents; Introduction; Pudd'nhead Wilson Revisited; The Sense of Disorder in Pudd'nhead Wilson; Mark Twain and Homer Plessy; Francis Galton and Mark Twain The Natal Autograph in Pudd'nhead Wilson; "Sure Identifiers" Race, Science, and the Law in Pudd'nhead Wilson; The Ties that Bind Race and Sex in Pudd'nhead Wilson; Roxana's Plot; Fatal Speculations Murder, Money, and Manners in Pudd'nhead Wilson; "By Right of the White Election" Political Theology and Theological Politics in Pudd'nhead Wilson; Pudd'nhead Wilson on Democratic Governance
"What did he reckon would become of the other half if he killed his half?" Doubled, Divided, and Crossed Selves in Pudd'nheadSome of the Ways of Freedom in Pudd'nhead Wilson; Notes; About the Contributors; Index
