Douglas Anderson is the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at University of Georgia, USA. His previous books include A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (1990), The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (1997), William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word (2003), Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (2009), and The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin (2012).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Thought Experiments 1. Inside Excursions 2. Interest 3. Attention 4. Shadings Conclusion: Greatnesses in the Brain Notes Index

Anderson's study of the primary texts is thorough and wide-ranging, providing a sense of the intense mental spaces layered beneath so much of Twain's writing. The Introspective Art of Mark Twain will be of use to critics to understand the psychology of Twain and his creative process as it developed through his career.

Douglas Anderson is the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at University of Georgia, USA. His previous books include A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (1990), The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (1997), William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word (2003), Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (2009), and The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin (2012).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Thought Experiments 1. Inside Excursions 2. Interest 3. Attention 4. Shadings Conclusion: Greatnesses in the Brain Notes Index

Anderson's study of the primary texts is thorough and wide-ranging, providing a sense of the intense mental spaces layered beneath so much of Twain's writing. The Introspective Art of Mark Twain will be of use to critics to understand the psychology of Twain and his creative process as it developed through his career.

Douglas Anderson is the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at University of Georgia, USA. His previous books include A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (1990), The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (1997), William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word (2003), Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (2009), and The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin (2012).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Thought Experiments 1. Inside Excursions 2. Interest 3. Attention 4. Shadings Conclusion: Greatnesses in the Brain Notes Index

Anderson's study of the primary texts is thorough and wide-ranging, providing a sense of the intense mental spaces layered beneath so much of Twain's writing. The Introspective Art of Mark Twain will be of use to critics to understand the psychology of Twain and his creative process as it developed through his career.