Mark Twain and Money : Language, Capital, and Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series .
- Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Henry B. Wonham -- 1. Narrating the Tennessee Land: Real Property, Fictional Land, and Mark Twain's Literary Enterprise - Lawrence Howe -- 2. Brand Management: Samuel Clemens, Trademarks, and the Mark Twain Enterprise - Judith Yaross Lee -- 3. "Society's Very Choicest Brands": Hank Morgan's Brand Magic in Camelot - Mark Schiebe -- 4. The Quality (and Cost) of Mercy: Mark Twain's Evasion of the Poor - Ann M. Ryan -- 5. The Robber Barons' Fool?: Mark Twain and the Four Ps of Patronage - Gregg Camfield -- 6. "These Hideous Times": Mark Twain's Bankruptcy and the Panic of 1893 - Joseph Csicsila -- 7. "Drop Sentiment, and Come Down to Business": Debt and the Disintegration of "Manly" Character in "Indiantown" and "Which Was It?" - Susanne Weil -- 8. The Pain Economy: Mark Twain's Masochistic Understanding of Pain - M. Christine Benner Dixon -- 9. Minstrel Economics: Mark Twain, the San Francisco Minstrels, and Folk Investment in the American Dream - Sharon D. McCoy -- 10. "A House of Cards": Fictitious Capital and The Gilded Age - Jonathan Hayes -- 11. "By and By I Was Smitten with the Silver Fever": Literary Veins in Roughing It - Jeffrey W. Miller -- 12. The Art of Arbitrage: Reimagining Mark Twain, Business Man - Henry B. Wonham -- Coda: "Follow the Money" - Lawrence Howe -- Contributors -- Index.
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Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Knowledge--Economics. Economics in literature.