A Historical Guide to Mark Twain

Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, this book addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Mark Twain's work including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class and imperialism. Mark Twain remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Mark Twain's work including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class and imperialism. This volume also contains a introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.