Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................xi
Introduction JOSEPH CSICSILA AND CHAD ROHMAN....................1
"I ain' no dread being": The Minstrel Mask as Alter Ego SHARON D. MCCOY....................13
Mark Twain's Last Cakewalk: Racialized Performance in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger HENRY B. WONHAM....................41
"The Chronicle of Young Satan" and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: A Transnationalist Reading PETER MESSENT....................51
Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl and Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger: German Literature and the Composition of the Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts HORST KRUSE....................71
The Prophetic Imagination, the Liberal Self, and the Ending of No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger HAROLD K. BUSH, JR....................91
Mark Twain and the Accusing Angel: "The Chronicle of Young Satan" and Samuel Clemens's Argument with the Inscrutable MICHAEL J. KISKIS....................105
Transcendental Hedonism? Sex, Song, Food, and Drink in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger and "My Platonic Sweetheart" GREGG CAMFIELD....................127
"Silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks": Multiple Selves, Wordless Communication, and the Psychology of Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger RANDALL KNOPER....................144
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: The Final Soliloquy of a "Littery Man" JAMES S. LEONARD....................159
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger as Literary Comedy DAVID E. E. SLOANE....................174
Samuel Clemens, Duality, and Time Travel DAVID LIONEL SMITH....................187
Dreams and Metaphors in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger JOHN BIRD....................198
Mark Twain's Mysterious Strangers and the Motions of the Mind BRUCE MICHELSON....................216
Afterword: Mark Twain's Postmodern Tale Found in a Jug ALAN GRIBBEN....................236
Bibliography and Critical Resources for Further Reading....................251
Contributors....................277
Index....................279