Mark Twain Project

FAIN: RQ-260806-18

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Robert H. Hirst (Project Director: December 2017 to present)

Preparation for print and digital publication of three volumes of works by Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, San Francisco Writings, and Pudd’nhead Wilson; Volume 7 of his letters; and completion of necessary upgrades to the search engine and image database of the Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO). (24 months)

The proposed grant will enable the Mark Twain Project, during 2018–2020, to publish (in print and on Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO) three scholarly editions: The Innocents Abroad; San Francisco Correspondence, 1865–1866; and Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 7: 1876–1877. We will also begin and complete editorial work on a scholarly edition of Pudd’nhead Wilson, for submission to press by the period’s end. Other additions to MTPO will include publication of five years of Mark Twain’s letter texts (written 1883–87), and digitization of five of the Project’s earlier-published editions of literary works. In the same period the Project will also upgrade MTPO’s user interface, and commence improvements to make its data set more usable and available.

Associated Products

Mark Twain's Civil War: "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" (Book)
Title: Mark Twain's Civil War: "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed"
Author: Mark Twain
Editor: Benjamin Griffin
Editor: With maps by Mark Twain
Editor: With Illustrations by E.W. Kemble
Abstract: From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain’s controversial Civil War story “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed.” Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his own words, why he “didn’t do anything”) in the war; but the article was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address a growing curiosity about the nature of his brief military service. The complex political situation in Missouri during the early months of the war and Twain’s genius for transforming life into fiction have tended to obstruct historical understanding of “The Private History”; interpretations of Samuel Clemens’s enthusiastic enlistment, sedulous avoidance of combat, and abandonment of the rebellion have ranged from condemnation to celebration. Aided by Twain’s notes and correspondence? transcribed and published here for the first time?Benjamin Griffin of UC Berkeley’s Mark Twain Project offers a new and cogent analysis, particularly of Clemens’s multiple revisions of his own war experience. A necessity for any Twain bookshelf, Mark Twain’s Civil War sheds light on a great writer’s changeable and challenging position on the deadliest of American conflicts.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/mark-twains-civil-war-the-private-history-of-a-campaign-that-failed/oclc/1083690460&referer=brief_results
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Secondary URL: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twains-Civil-War-Campaign/dp/1597144789/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Mark+Twain%27s+Civil+War%3A+%22The+Private+History+of+a+Campaign+that+Failed%22&qid=1574258704&s=books&sr=1-1
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Access Model: Book
Publisher: Berkeley, CA: Heyday and University of California Press for the Bancroft Library
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781597144780
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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