"Mark Twain" in the Media Assignment

Innocents Abroad (Dover)             Roughing It (U.Cal.)             Tales, Speeches, Essays and Sketches (Harper)             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (U.Cal.)             Life on the Mississippi (Penguin)             Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U.Cal.)             A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (U.Cal.)             Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Twins (Penguin)             Following the Equator (Dover) WEDNESDAY 8/26 — INTRODUCTION | PLAY MT's Memory Builder Game MONDAY 8/31 — MEET IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY                           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.                           And LOOK, at least quickly, at the Library's MT Papers Finding Aid -- see Internet Resources page for directions to that. WEDNESDAY 9/2 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 1-32                           EXPLORE PreTexts, Publicity & Selected Illustrations MONDAY 9/7 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 33-46                           EXPLORE Mapping the Text WEDNESDAY 9/9 — READ Innocents Abroad, Chaps. 47-end                           EXPLORE Reviews MONDAY 9/14 — READ Roughing It, Chaps. 1-41                           EXPLORE Mapping the West   This (still unfinished) section of the MT archive contains scores of texts and hundreds of pictures, comparing MT's treatment of "the West" with other contemporary representations. You don't have to read or view them all. But at least look at a good sampling of the words and images under the numbers 1, 6 and 9, the depictions of the buffalo, the Indians and the Chinese out west. WEDNESDAY 9/16 — READ Roughing It, Chaps. 42-77                           EXPLORE Reviews MONDAY 9/21 — READ Roughing It, Chaps. 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 9/23 — READ Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chaps. 1-24                           EXPLORE PreTexts MONDAY 9/28 — READ Tom Sawyer, Chaps. 25-end                           EXPLORE Reviews, & 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 9/30 — READ Life on the Mississippi, Chaps. 1-17                           EXPLORE SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS MONDAY 10/5 — READING DAY WEDNESDAY 10/7 — READ Life on the Mississippi, Chaps. 18-47 MONDAY 10/12 — READ Life on the Mississippi, Chaps. 48-end WEDNESDAY 10/14 — 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 10/19 — READ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 1-32                           EXPLORE Sources & PreTexts WEDNESDAY 10/21 — READ Huckleberry Finn, Chaps. 33-end                             EXPLORE Illustrations (in particular, read Kemble's essay "Illustrating Huckleberry Finn") & Seeing Jim MONDAY 10/26 — Huckleberry Finn                           EXPLORE Reviews & Touring With Huck   Take a good look at least at the letters and reviews available on the "Hypertext Schedule," and read through the materials linked off the "Freeing Jim and the Freedman's Case" page. WEDNESDAY 10/28 — READ A Connecticut Yankee, Chaps. 1-20                           EXPLORE PreTexts & Camelot MONDAY 11/2 — READ A Connecticut Yankee, Chaps. 21-end                           EXPLORE Publicity, Technology & Reviews WEDNESDAY 11/4 — READ Those Extraordinary Twins & "Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" (TSES)                           EXPLORE Twain & Twins MONDAY 11/9 — READ Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chaps. 1-19                           EXPLORE PreTexts, Illustrations & Facsimile First Edition WEDNESDAY 11/11 — READ Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chaps. 20-end                           EXPLORE Publicity, Reviews & Imaging Slavery in MT's Books MONDAY 11/16 — READ Following the Equator, Chaps. 1- 37                           EXPLORE Equator Sales Spiel WEDNESDAY 11/18 — READ Following the Equator, Chaps. 38 - end MONDAY 11/23 — EXHIBIT PRESENTATIONS:     MEET ON 2nd FLOOR, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY WEDNESDAY 11/25 — THANKSGIVING BREAK MONDAY 11/30 — READ "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "Seventieth Birthday Dinner Speech" & "The War Prayer" WEDNESDAY 12/2 — READ "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" & "Corn-Pone Opinions" (TSES); "The United States of Lyncherdom" MONDAY 12/7 — SAM CLEMENS IS DEAD . . .   (Death Notices)     ESPECIALLY AP REPORTS, LYING IN STATE, 28 OBITUARIES, EDITORIAL CARTOONS                     . . . LONG LIVE MARK TWAIN FRIDAY 12/11 — ESSAY DUE BY 5 P.M.