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Table of Contents

Essays

  1. Nonhuman Liability: Charles Chesnutt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the Racial Discourses of Tort Law
  2. David Hollingshead
  3. pp. 95-122
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  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Loss of the Hanover: Transforming a Maine Shipwreck in The Pearl of Orr’s Island
  2. Susan F. Beegel
  3. pp. 123-144
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  1. Suicide and the New England Conscience: Notes on Edith Wharton, Robinson, and Frost
  2. George Monteiro
  3. pp. 145-151
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Forum

  1. “Corn-Pone Opinions” Revisited: An Argument Against the Conflated Text
  2. Randall Stamper
  3. pp. 152-161
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  1. Mark Twain’s “Corn-Pone Opinions,” “Reflections on a Letter and a Book,” and “Moral and Intellectual Man”
  2. Joe B. Fulton
  3. pp. 162-163
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Notes and Documents

  1. Willa Cather on a “New World Novelist”: A Newly-Discovered 1920 Vanity Fair Essay
  2. Melissa J. Homestead
  3. pp. 164-179
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  1. From Serial to Novel: Horatio Alger’s Revisions in Ragged Dick
  2. Jennifer M. Nader
  3. pp. 180-182
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  1. Five Additional Recovered Letters by Mark Twain
  2. Gary Scharnhorst
  3. pp. 183-184
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Reviews

  1. Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing by Donna Campbell (review)
  2. Katherine Fusco
  3. pp. 185-186
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  1. Mark Twain Under Fire: Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851–2015 by Joe B. Fulton (review)
  2. Alan Gribben
  3. pp. 186-188
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