2024年Trouble Begins Lecture Series: Mark Twain's 70th at Demonico's: The Dawn of a New Era in American Literature

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Presented by 苔丝Chakkalakal, Bowdoin College.

On Tuesday December 5th, 1905, the nation’s most revered and well-known writers from across the United 状态s gathered in New York 城市 to honor Mark Twain’s seventieth birthday. While Twain was the gathering’s undisputed center, the occasion featured several other writers, 老人和年轻人, whose presence marked a new turn in American literature. The party included several women writers and, for perhaps the first time in the nation’s history, a Black and Native American author sat alongside their white counterparts. A close look at this event, 的祝酒, 菜单, 的衣服, and gossip gives us a view of Twain’s lasting influence on American Literature.

苔丝Chakkalakal 是作者吗? A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt (即将出版,圣. 马丁的), Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and 免费的dom in Nineteenth-Century America (U of Illinois Press, 2011). He is co-editor, with Kenneth W. Warren, of a new edition of Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition (West Virginia University Press, 2022) and Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013). She is creator and co-host of a new podcast called “Dead Writers: Great American Authors and 在哪里 They Lived.” She teaches African American and American Literature at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.