Dreaming Mark Twain

This book uses new historicist techniques to deconstruct 5 major novels of Mark Twain in order to achieve a cultural critique of America's Gilded Age. It is this application of modern critical techniques to the criticism of Twain's works that makes this book so unique. Dreaming Mark Twain will interest students studying his works as well as American literature students interested in an interdisciplinary study of history and literature.