Overview

Full Product Details

9780817359676

Table of Contents

Reviews

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 Twain In 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

In 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 Twain

Author Information

Susan K. Harris is distinguished professor emerita at the University of Kansas. She is author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902; The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew; The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain; 19th-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies; and Mark Twain's Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available