Session Details

Monday, 29 December

505. Mark Twain: Fresh Perspectives on a Cultural Icon

10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square 14, Hilton

Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America

Presiding: Gregg Camfield, Univ. of California, Merced

1. “Mark Twain, Supersessionist Theology, and the Sacred Imagined Nation,” Michael Donald Lackey, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris

2. “The Minor and the ‘Littery’ Men: Mark Twain’s ‘Bewildering Blunder’ of 1877,” Diana Hope Polley, Southern New Hampshire Univ.

3. “John Woolman, Quaker Saint; Mark Twain, Quaker Son?” Chad Rohman, Dominican Univ.

4. “Huck’s Future,” Peter Stoneley, Univ. of Reading

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

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