The Author-Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction

Index

Index abolitionism,  Clemens’s father and,  fear/hatred of, ,  opponents of,  Acting Naturally: Mark Twain and the Culture of Performance (Knoper),  Adam,  Adams, John Clemens and,  letter to, , , , ,  on mind, , , ,  admonition, , ,  adult fiction,  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, , , , , , , ,  ego in, – Henry Clemens relationship in, – innate goodness in,  nostalgia in,  ‘‘Old Times’’ and,  personal experience in,  race-slavery in,  Agnus Dei,  Aldine,  Amaranth,  ambivalence,  The American Claimant bad faith in,  morality in,  slavery in, – anagnorsis,  Anderson, Frederick, , n Anti-Moral Sense church,   Army of the Tennessee,  Ashcroft-Lyon manuscript, , n Atlantic Monthly,  author-cat, , , , , , , , , ,  autobiography,  challenge of,  discord in,  experiments with,  hermetic nature of,  novel as,  revelations in,  safety of,  truth of,  bad faith, , , , , , , , ,  in The American Claimant,  Clemens’s own,  in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur ’s Court,  definitions of,  denial, , , , , , , , , ,  Huckleberry Finn and, –, – in Huckleberry Finn,  insulation of,  kindred images of,  local, , ,  noetic analysis of,  ornate mechanism of,  personal,  process of thinking,   Index in Pudd’nhead Wilson,  Tom Sawyer’s mastery of,  in slavery,  truth resistance as, ,  uses of,  Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain’s America (Robinson),  Baetzhold, Howard G.,  Bank of California,  bankruptcy, , , , , ,  Barnum and Bailey,  Barnum circus,  Bascom, Henry,  Battle of the Sand Belt,  Beecher, Henry Ward, ,  Benito Cereno (Melville),  Berkeley, Lord, ,  betrayal, , , , , , ,  biblical grief,  black truth,  Blankenship, Tom,  Bliss, Elisha,  Bombay, ,  Bourget, M. Paul,  Bowen, Will, ,  Bradish, Pat, ,  Branch, Edgar,  Brenner, Gerry, n bribery,  British Empire,  Bryn Mawr,  Budd, Louis J.,  Cadets of Temperance,  Caesar,  calculation,  Calvinism,  Calvin, John,  Camelot,  Camfield, Gregg,  Canty, Tom, , ,  Carnegie, Andrew,  Carnegie Hall,  Carson City,  Cautiousness,  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,  Century Magazine,  Chamberlaine, A. P.,  Charcot, Jean-Martin,  Christian democracy, ,  Christian God,  Christianity, , ,  Christian Science,  ‘‘The Chronicle of Young Satan’’,  Civil War, , , ,  in Century Magazine,  Clemens’s record of,  Clemens’s retreat from, , –,  commencement of,  corruption in post,  outbreak of,  Sanitary Fund,  Claggett, Billy,  Clemens, Clara,  Clemens, Henry, ,  Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, – Samuel Clemens on, – death of, – dialogue with,  dream of death of,  fictionalizations of,  guilt over, – rage against,  sickness of,  Clemens, James Marshall,  Clemens, Jane, , n Clemens, Jean,  banishment of,  death of, ,  epilepsy of,  on mother’s death,  Clemens, Livy Langdon,  Clemens, Mollie Stotts,  Clemens, Orion, , , , , , , ,  Index  Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,  Adams and,  anger of,  apologies of,  autobiographical impulse of,  autobiography of,  bad faith of, ,  bankruptcy of, , , , , ,  boyhood reminisces of,  boyish nostalgia of, – burden of,  on Christianity, ,  on Christian Science,  on Civil War,  Civil War fled by, –,  on Henry’s death, – on confession,  conscience of, ,  daughter’s death, ,  on determinism, – Eddy disliked by, ,  enigmatic qualities of,  familial relations of,  figure of,  Finn identified with, by,  flaws of,  Grant’s relationship with, , – greed of,  guilt of, ,  Joan of Arc and,  late period,  later life of,  leaving home,  on life,  on Lyon,  marriage of,  measles and,  on morality,  moral perfection, ideal of,  nostalgia of,  performances of,  personality features of,  polarized feelings about Henry,  in Pudd’nhead Wilson,  on racism/sexuality, – resilience of,  retreat of,  on Satan,  on scapegoats,  self-effacement of,  self-scrutiny of,  sexual prudishness of,  on shame,  on slavery, , ,  as socialist/aristocrat,  temper of,  therapy for,  on Wiegand,  Clemens, Susy,  Cleopatra,  colonial ideology,  colonialism, ,  Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature (Fletcher),  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,  bad faith in,  moral autonomy,  moralism of, – slavery and, – conscience, , ,  of Clemens, ,  free,  Conte, Sieur Louis de, , n Coontz, Ben,  corn-pone opinions,  Cornstock fever,  Cox, James M., , , , , , , n crazy work,  Crimean War,  Crowley, J. Donald, n Cuba,  Daily Morning Call,  Daily Reminder,  Dawson’s Landing bad faith denial in,   Index boundary anxieties in,  inhumanity in,  reaction in,  ‘‘The Death of Jean’’,  deception,  democracy, , ,  Dempsey, Terrell, ,  denial, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  bad faith, , , , , , , , ,  denying,  of dishonesty,  of guilt,  humorous,  of responsibility, , , ,  widespread,  determinism, , , , , – claims of,  comforting,  consolation of,  discussion of,  free will,  gravitation to,  moral, ,  suggestion of,  varieties,  DeVoto, Bernard, ,  Dillingham, Charles,  discord,  Dodge, Nicodemus,  Douglass, Frederick,  Dream-Self advice of,  duplicate, ,  manifestation,  message,  Schwarz and,  dream-sprite,  Driscoll, Tom, ,  Driscoll, York Leicester,  Eddy, Mary Baker,  Clemens’s dislike of, ,  history of, ,  Edward, Prince,  Edwards, Jonathan,  ego, – egocentricism,  Empire City Massacre,  Empire of Dreams,  epilepsy,  Essex, Cecil Burleigh,  Europe and Elsewhere (Paine),  European imperialism,  Eve,  ‘‘The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut ’’,  Fairbanks, Mary Mason, ,  farce,  Fatout, Paul, n Feldner, August, ,  fever,  fiction adult,  juvenile,  Fields, James T.,  Fingarette, Herbert, n Finn, Huckleberry,  into adult world,  ambivalence of, –,  apology of, – bad faith and, –, – betrayal of,  deception...