Mark Twain: A Critical Study

This book on Mark Twain consists of thirteen articles namely-Mark Twain: An Overview; Realism, Romanticism and Politics in Mark Twain; Beneath the Veil: Clothing, Race and Gender in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson; Carnival in Mark Twain’s “Stirring Times in Austria” and “The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg”; Through a Glass Eye, Darkly: The Skeptic Design of ‘Life on the Mississippi’; ‘A Difficult Case’: W.D. Howell’s Impression of Mark Twain; Literary Continuity in Sandra Cisneros’s ‘The House on Mango Street’; Seven Recent Commentaries on Mark Twain; Gloom and Doom in Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee, from Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur; What’s Funny about Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer’s Games of Death; Huck the Thief; Mark Twain’s Cross-Dressing Oeuvre; etc. This book gives a vivid account of his life events and literary achievements alongwith critical notes by competent scholars. Definitely this will serve the purpose of students and teachers alike.