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The life & work of Mark Twain, the Teaching Company Limited Partnership ; producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton

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The life & work of Mark Twain

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the Teaching Company Limited Partnership ; producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton

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The Great courses

Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works. A series of 24 lectures on a college course level

pt. I, disc 1. Needing no introduction? -- From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain -- The sense of Mark Twain's humor -- Marketing Twain -- Innocents abroad, I: going East -- Innocents abroad, II: traveling to unlearn -- pt. I, disc 2. Roughing it: going West -- The lecture tours -- The Whittier after-dinner speech -- "Old times on the Mississippi" -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- The performances of Tom Sawyer -- pt. II, disc 3. Huck Finn, I: defining an American voice -- Huck Finn, II: the quest for freedom -- Huck Finn, III: the great American novel? -- Huck Finn, IV: Classrooms and controversy -- Connecticut Yankee, I: unwriting the Middle Ages -- Connecticut Yankee, II: revisiting the 19th century -- pt. II, disc 4. Connecticut Yankee, III: the quest for status -- Pudd'nhead Wilson: fictions of law and custom -- Anti-imperialist works -- Late Twain in public -- Late Twain in private -- Sam Clemens is dead/Long live Mark Twain

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Life and work of Mark Twain