Session Details

Sunday, 30 December

783. Mark Twain and the American City

1:45–3:00 p.m., Stetson F, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America

Presiding: Bruce F. Michelson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

1. “The Child Learns by Doing: Mark Twain, Progressive Education Reform Movements, and the Cultural Politics of Urbanization around 1900,” Joseph Csicsila, Eastern Michigan Univ.

2. “Why Hartford: Mark Twain and Moral Ecology,” Harold K. Bush, Saint Louis Univ.

3. “Mark Twain and the Urban Street,” Ann M. Ryan, Le Moyne Coll.

For copies of abstracts, visit www.honors.uiuc.edu/michelson.

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