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Cosmopolitan Twain Mark Twain and His Circle Series TOM QUIRK, EDITOR Cosmopolitan Twain EDITED BY Ann M. Ryan AND Joseph B. McCullough University of Missouri Press Columbia and London Copyright © 2008 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 12 11 10 09 08 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cosmopolitan Twain / edited by Ann M. Ryan and Joseph B. McCullough. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: “From New York City to Vienna to the suburban utopia of Harford, Twain spent most of his life in an urban environment, generating writings that marked America’s movement into the twentieth century. Rather than the nostalgic voice of America’s rural past, Twain was a visionary of a cosmopolitan future”—Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-8262-1827-8 (alk. paper) 1. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910—Homes and haunts. 2. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910—Travel. 3. Cosmopolitanism in literature. 4. Cities and towns in literature. 5. City and town life in literature. 6. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910— Settings. 7. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910—Psychology. 8. Modernism (Literature)—United States. I. Ryan, Ann M. II. McCullough, Joseph B. PS1334.C67 2008 818(cid:2).409—dc22 2008040157 ø™ This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Designer: Kristie Lee Typesetter: The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Typefaces: Berkeley, Astaire, Aristocrat Title page illustration courtesy Mark Twain Papers and Project, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Ann: In loving memory of Liz Salvagno Joe: In memory of my mother and father and for Jessica, who often makes me laugh and who makes me very proud This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments iv Abbreviations xi Introduction: Mark Twain and the Cosmopolitan Ideal 1 ANN M. RYAN Mark Twain and the Mean (and Magical) Streets of New York 21 ANN M. RYAN Sam Clemens and the Mississippi River Metropolis 64 BRUCE MICHELSON Mark Twain, San Francisco’s ComicFlâneur 93 JAMES E. CARON Taming the Bohemian: MarkTwain in Buffalo 116 JOSEPH B. MCCULLOUGH Mark Twain’s Music Box: Livy, Cosmopolitanism, and the Commodity Aesthetic 140 KERRY DRISCOLL “Not an Alien but at Home”: Mark Twain and London 187 PETER MESSENT vii viii Contents Mark Twain in Vienna: A Diplomat without Pay 211 JANICE MCINTIRE-STRASBURG A Room of His Own: Samuel Clemens, Elmira, and Quarry Farm 233 MICHAEL J. KISKIS About the Contributors 255 Index 257 Acknowledgments We owe our thanks to a great many people for their support, guidance, and expertise. We would like to thank Robert Hirst and the staff of the Mark Twain Project of the University of California, Berkeley, for both their assis- tance and their permission to use materials from the archive, and we would also like to thank Bob for his generous insights into this project. At the Mark Twain House and Museum, we owe thanks to Patti Philippon, who was in- strumental in providing resources for Kerry Driscoll’s essay. Additionally, we appreciate the kindness extended to this project by the entire staff of the Mark Twain House, particularly Jeffrey Nichols, who helped us to experi- ence firsthand Twain’s cosmopolitan lifestyle. We are grateful to the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, and especially to Barb Snedecor for making available the many resources of Quarry Farm. We would like to thank as well Mark Woodhouse of the Gannett-Tripp Library at Elmira Col- lege for lending us his expertise. Kenneth Johnson from the reproduction department of the Library of Congress’s digital collection made a complicat- ed process much less daunting. And we also owe our thanks to the Barrett Collection at the University of Virginia for giving us permission to reproduce an image of Twain, resplendent in his top hat, and to Stephen Railton, whose Mark Twain in His Times Web site makes these images so accessible. And we are most particularly grateful to Ms. Alexandra Lidov for her permission to use the work of her husband, Arthur Lidov, whose drawing of Mark Twain has contributed greatly to this volume. Finally, we would like to acknowl- edge Tom Quirk, editor of the Mark Twain and Circle Series, whose support and sage advice throughout this project cannot be overstated. ix
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