PART I LIFE
1 Biography: Gary Scharnhorst
2 Reading: Alan Gribben
3 Autobiography: John Bird
4 Biographies: Kevin Mac Donnell
PART II LITERARY CONTEXTS
5 Southwestern Humor: Henry B. Wonham
6 Literary Comedians: David E. E. Sloane
7 Local Color and Regionalism: Joseph A. Alvarez
8 Early Periodical Writing: James E. Caron
9 Travel Writing: Jeffrey Melton
10 Short Fiction: Peter Messent
11 Publishing: Bruce Michelson
12 Lectures and Speeches: Tracy Wuster
13 Contemporary Writers: Kelly L. Richardson
14 Realism and Naturalism: Chad Rohman
PART III HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS
15 Politics: James S. Leonard
16 Business and Economics: Lawrence Howe
17 Religion: Harold K. Bush
18 Science and Technology: Nathaniel Williams
19 Race and Ethnicity: African Americans: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
20 Race and Ethnicity: Native Americans: Kerry Driscoll
21 Race and Ethnicity: Chinese: Hsuan L. Hsu
22 Cosmopolitanism: Ann M. Ryan
23 Gender Issues: Women and Domesticity: Laura Skandera-Trombley
24 Gender Issues: Sexuality: Linda A. Morris
25 History: Gregg Camfield
26 Animals and Animal Rights: Emily E. VanDette
27 Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism: Susan K. Harris
28 Philosophy: James Wharton Leonard
PART IV RECEPTION AND CRITICISM
29 Contemporary and Early Reception and Criticism (to 1960): Joe B. Fulton
30 Reception and Criticism (1960 to Present): Joseph Csicsila
31 Translation and International Reception: Selina Lai-Henderson
PART V HISTORICAL, CREATIVE, AND CULTURAL LEGACIES
32 Film, Television, and Theater Adaptations: R. Kent Rasmussen
33 Copyright, Trademark, and Brand: Judith Yaross Lee
34 Mark Twain Sites: Hilary Iris Lowe