Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, 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 Twain's work, including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of the Historical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.

Introduction 1. Capsule Biography 2. "A Moralist in Disguise:" Mark Twain and American Religion 3. A Republican Artisan in the Court of King Capital: Mark Twain and Commerce 4. Mark Twain and Race 5. Mark Twain and Gender 6. Mark Twain and Social Class 7. Mark Twain and Imperialism Illustrated Chronology Bibliographical Essay

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of The Oxford Mark Twain and author of Was Huck Black? (OUP) and Lighting Out for the Territory (OUP).

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