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TEXTS
Autobiography of Mark Twain (Harper) Innocents Abroad (Modern Library) Roughing It (U.Cal.) Great Short Works of Mark Twain (GSW) (Harper) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (U.Cal.) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U.Cal.) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (U.Cal.) Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Twins (Penguin) |
BY THE ELECTRONIC TEXT CENTER THANKS: DAVID SEAMAN |
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WEDNESDAY 8/29 — Introduction MONDAY 9/3 — PLAY MT's Memory Builder Game & EXPLORE Marketing Twain There are a lot of pages in this section of the MT archive. Feel free to look at all of them, but at least make sure you study all the materials linked off the page entitled SUBSCRIPTION PUBLICATION. READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chaps. 30, 31, 44, 46, 49, 51, 53, 57 WEDNESDAY 9/5 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 1-32 EXPLORE PreTexts, Publicity & Selected Illustrations DEADLINE FOR PICKING CLASS TO LEAD MONDAY 9/10 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 33-46 BRIAN CAMPBELL EXPLORE Mapping the Text WEDNESDAY 9/12 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 47-end HUNTER SINCLAIR EXPLORE Reviews FRIDAY 9/14 DEADLINE FOR PICKING REVIEW BOOK MONDAY 9/17 — READ Roughing It, Chaps. 1-41 CATHERINE NICHOLAS READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chaps. 21-27 WEDNESDAY 9/19 — READ Roughing It, Chaps. 42-61 TYLER HOGAN EXPLORE Mapping the West This section of the MT archive contains scores of texts and hundreds of pictures — you don't have to read or view them all. But look at a good sampling of the words and images under the numbers 1, 6, 9 and 11 on the map. This will give you a clear sense of how other Americans at this time were depicting the stories of the buffalo, the Indians, the Chinese and the scenery out west. MONDAY 9/24 — READ Roughing It, Chaps. 78-79 READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chaps. 11, 28, 32-35, 64 EXPLORE Lecture Tour Maps (just click through the maps of MT's 8 American tours) & The Savage Tour Here you'll find texts of MT's lecture on the Sandwich Islands, and reviews of many of his performances; read at least Fatout's lecture text, and at least 15 reviews from MT's various tours — i.e. the western, midwestern, eastern and 1868-69 tours WEDNESDAY 9/26 — READ "Old Times on the Mississippi" (GSW) MARY BAROCH READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chap. 20 EXPLORE SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS MONDAY 10/1 — READ Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chaps. 1-24 BIZZY TYSSE READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chaps. 1-10, 12-19 EXPLORE PreTexts The 2 early Twain texts here are fun to read, but if you are short on time the 2 texts I'd most like you to read for this class are "Shillaber's Ike" and "Alger's Ragged Dick." WEDNESDAY 10/3 — READ Tom Sawyer, Chaps. 25-end MELISSA HUDSON EXPLORE American Nostalgia You don't have to read every word of the material in this section, but take a look at all of it, and read at least a couple pieces from each of the 3 lists the links are divided into — i.e. the first set, then the "Centennial Celebration" set, and then the "Later Evocations" set. FRIDAY 10/5 REVIEW DUE MONDAY 10/8 — READING DAY  WEDNESDAY 10/10 — READ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 1-32 MARIE COHEN EXPLORE Sources & PreTexts MONDAY 10/15 — READ Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 33-end EXPLORE Illustrations (in particular, read Kemble's essay "Illustrating Huckleberry Finn") & Seeing Jim WEDNESDAY 10/17 — Huckleberry Finn CHRIS ROBBINS EXPLORE Reviews & Touring With Huck Take a good look at least at the letters and reviews available on the "Hypertext Schedule," and read through the materials linked off the "Freeing Jim and the Freedman's Case" page (though you don't have to read all of Cable's essay on "The Freedman's Case in Equity"). CLOSE READING ASSIGNMENT DUE Some Examples MONDAY 10/22 — READ A Connecticut Yankee, Chaps. 1-20 ALICE GILLET READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chap. 54 EXPLORE PreTexts Take a look at all this material; read the section called "Scott, The South, & Life on the Mississippi. WEDNESDAY 10/24 — READ A Connecticut Yankee, Chaps. 21-end BROOKE LARSON READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chap. 45 EXPLORE Technology MONDAY 10/29 — A Connecticut Yankee RENÉE ALBERS READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chap. 72 EXPLORE Publicity & Camelot & Reviews WEDNESDAY 10/31 — READ Those Extraordinary Twins & "The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" (GSW) MARY GRIFFIN EXPLORE Twain & Twins MONDAY 11/5 — READ Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chaps. 1-19 EXPLORE PreTexts & Illustrations ESSAY TOPIC DUE WEDNESDAY 11/7 — READ Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chaps. 20-end GREY FISHER EXPLORE Publicity & Reviews MONDAY 11/12 — Pudd'nhead Wilson SARAH DICKEY EXPLORE Imaging Slavery in MT's Books WEDNESDAY 11/14 — NO CLASS MONDAY 11/19 — READ "The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech" & "Story of a Speech" & "The Babies" BRITTANY GURGLE READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chap. 48 EXPLORE His Voice & His Speeches Take at least a good look at the other four speeches here. WEDNESDAY 11/21 — THANKSGIVING BREAK  MONDAY 11/26 — READ "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (GSW) TONY TRAN WEDNESDAY 11/28 — READ "Corn-Pone Opinions," "The United States of Lyncherdom," "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," "The War Prayer" (GSW) SAM BUSH MONDAY 12/3 — READ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Chaps. 36-41, 66-71 WEDNESDAY 12/5 — SAM CLEMENS IS DEAD . . . (Death Notices) ESPECIALLY AP REPORTS, LYING IN STATE, 28 OBITUARIES, EDITORIAL CARTOONS . . . LONG LIVE MARK TWAIN FRIDAY 12/7 — FINAL ESSAY DUE BY 5 P.M. |