ENAM 4500
Mark Twain
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 WEDNESDAY 1/20 — INTRODUCTION | PLAY MT's Memory Builder Game MONDAY 1/25 — READ "The Jumping Frog" (in GSW) & EXPLORE Marketing Twain There are a lot of pages in this section of the MT archive. Feel free to look at all of them, but definitely study all the materials linked off the page entitled SUBSCRIPTION PUBLICATION. WEDNESDAY 1/27 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 1 - 32 & EXPLORE PreTexts MONDAY 2/1 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 33 - 46 & EXPLORE Mapping the Text WEDNESDAY 2/3 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 47 - end & EXPLORE Reviews MONDAY 2/8 — READ Roughing It: Chaps. 1, 4, 5, 24, 47, 78, 79 & EXPLORE Lecture Tour Maps (just click through the maps of MT's 8 American tours) & The Savage Tour Here you'll find texts of MT's lecture on the Sandwich Islands, and reviews of many of his performances; read at least Fatout's lecture text, and at least 15 reviews from MT's various tours — i.e. the western, midwestern, eastern and 1868-69 tours. WEDNESDAY 2/10 — READ MT as After Dinner Speaker: "Toast: To Woman" (1882), "Toast: To Woman" (1868), "Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech," "Toast: The Babies" & "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims"; & MT's APOLOGY MONDAY 2/15 — READ "Old Times on the Mississippi" (in GSW) EXPLORE SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS WEDNESDAY 2/17 — READ Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chaps. 1 - 24 & EXPLORE PreTexts MONDAY 2/22 — READ Tom Sawyer, Chaps. 25 - end & EXPLORE American Nostalgia You don't have to read every word of the material in this section, but take a look at all of it, and read at least a couple pieces from each of the 3 lists the links are divided into — i.e. the first set, then the "Centennial Celebration" set, and then the "Later Evocations" set. WEDNESDAY 2/24 — READ The Prince and the Pauper FRIDAY 2/26 — MOVIE REVIEWS DUE BY 5 p.m. | YOUR MISSION MONDAY 3/1 — Mark Twain at the Movies (1) | CLASS MEETS IN 322A CLEMONS WEDNESDAY 3/3 — Mark Twain at the Movies (2) | CLASS MEETS IN 322A CLEMONS  MT in Bermuda (1910), with Helen Allen MONDAY 3/15 — READ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 1 - 16 & EXPLORE Sources & PreTexts WEDNESDAY 3/17 — READ Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 17 - 32 & EXPLORE Reviews MONDAY 3/22 — READ Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 33 - end & EXPLORE Illustrations (in particular, read Kemble's essay "Illustrating Huckleberry Finn") & Seeing Jim CLOSE READINGS DUE | YOUR MISSION WEDNESDAY 3/24 — Classic or Trash? READ huck-finn-modern-criticism.pdf @ Class Colab Site EXPLORE Touring With Huck Take a good look at least at the letters and reviews available on the "Hypertext Schedule," and read the first page under the "Freeing Jim and the Freedman's Case" link. MONDAY 3/29 — Mark Twain in the American Imagination (1) READ 10 ENAM4500...pdf book excerpts @ Class Colab Site EXPLORE Mark Twain on TV (James Tysse, ENAM 482, Spring 2002) WEDNESDAY 3/31 — Mark Twain in the American Imagination (2) WATCH Mark Twain, Part 1, directed by Ken Burns (2001) From a computer on grounds or on UVA-Anywhere, go to virgo.lib.virginia.edu and search for "Ken Burns Mark Twain." #3 item on the returned list of hits is Part 1. It's an internet resource, so you'll watch the 112-minute film on your computer. (Feel free to watch Part 2 as well.) When the film was about to air in 2001, Laura Bush used Mark Twain as the occasion for the first (and basically the last) "White House Symposium" on an American writer; you should read her remarks on him at her White House site. EXPLORE Mark Twain Collectibles (Kevin MacDonnell) MONDAY 4/5 — READ A Connecticut Yankee, Chaps. 1 - 20 & EXPLORE PreTexts & Camelot. WEDNESDAY 4/7 — READ A Connecticut Yankee, Chaps. 21 - end & EXPLORE Publicity & Reviews. MONDAY 4/12 — READ Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chaps. 1 - 19 & EXPLORE PreTexts, Illustrations & Facsimile First Edition. WEDNESDAY 4/14 — READ Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chaps. 20 - end & EXPLORE Reviews & Imaging Slavery in MT's Books. MONDAY 4/19 — READ "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "Corn-Pone Opinions," "The United States of Lyncherdom," "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" & "The War Prayer" (in GSW) WEDNESDAY 4/21 — READ "The Enchanted Sea-Wilderness" & "Which Was the Dream?" (in The Devil's Race-Track, pages 28-79) MONDAY 4/26 — Mark Twain on the Web WEDNESDAY 4/28 — Mark Twain on the Web (2) FRIDAY 4/30 — ESSAYS|PROJECTS DUE BY 5 p.m. MONDAY 5/3 — SAM CLEMENS IS DEAD . . . Death Notices ESPECIALLY AP Reports, Lying in State, 28 Obituaries, Editorial Cartoons . . . LONG LIVE MARK TWAIN 
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