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Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
1 Introduction
Part 1
2 The Puzzles of Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc
The Problems of Joan’s Reception
The Place of Joan in the Career of Mark Twain
Political Philosophy and Personal Recollections
The Political Wisdom of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
The Challenge of Reading Twain
Reading the Fabled Joan: Title and Front Matter of Personal Recollections
Notes
3 Twain’s Interest in Religion & the Divine Right of Kings
From “the Yankee” to Joan, Part I: The “Author’s Preface”
From “the Yankee” to Joan, Part II: The Argument of the “First” ‘Tack’
From “the Yankee” to Joan, Part III: Lady Castlemaine, the Pompadour, and the Problems with “Wholeness”
From “the Yankee” to Joan, Part IV: Additional Dialogic Contact
Coda: The Prince & The Pauper and Pudd’nhead Wilson
Notes
4 The Question and Narrative Structure of Personal Recollections
The Challenge Joan Poses to the Catholic Church
The Form of Personal Recollections
Notes
Part 2
5 Joan’s Noble Political Career
The Character and Career of Joan of Arc
Joan’s Nobility
Joan’s Nobility: Is It Selfless?
Joan’s Nobility: Is It Free?
The “Miraculous” Political and Military Career of Joan
The Five Great Deeds of Joan of Arc
Joan at Chinon and Patay
Notes
6 Joan, the Maiden Head of Modernity
France, 1429: Need for New Form and New Matter
Joan and Richemont
New French Animals: The Seeing Eye and Creating Mouth of Joan of Arc
Mark Twain’s Joan, The Machiavellian Princess
Personal Recollections and the Origins of Modernity
Notes
7 The Human Roots of Religious Belief
Beauty, Love, and a Divinely Ordered Cosmos
Sex, Death, and Divine Revelations
Joan’s Revolutionary Project: A Second Cut
Notes
Part 3
8 Speech in Personal Recollections: History, Tragedy, and Comedy
Artless Speech: De Conte’s History
Artful Speech, Part I: Tragic Music
Artful Speech, Part II: Paladin’s Comedy
Joan’s Revolutionary Project: A Third Cut
Artful Speech, Part III: Twain vs. Paladin, Joan, and the “Old Man”
Notes
9 Judging Joan
The Historical Trial and Twain’s History
The Church’s Attack on Joan’s “Voices”, or the Apology of Joan of Arc
Notes
10 The Queering of Joan’s Being, or The Church’s Attack on the Attire of Joan
The Catholic Objection to Cross-Dressing
Transvestitism and Politics in Personal Recollections
The Incarnation and the Conditions for Devotion
Facing Mortality?
Notes
11 Conclusion
The Storms of Nature, Speech, And Deed
The “Personal Recollections” of Sieur Louis de Conte and the Memorabilia of Mark Twain
Notes
References
Index