Stephen Railton

(1974)
Professor
American Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Columbia, 1975
M.A. Columbia, 1971
B.A. Columbia, 1970

Websites in Progress

Books

  • Mark Twain: A Short Introduction. Blackwells, 2003.
  • Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination. Princeton University Press, 1978.
  • Editor, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain, Barnes & Noble, 2006.
  • Editor, Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Stowe, Bedford St. Martin's, 2006.
  • Editor, The Last of the Mohicans, by Cooper. Barnes & Noble, 2003.
  • Co-Editor, Emerson and His Legacy: Essays in Honor of Quentin Anderson. Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
  • Editor of Walt Whitman: Whitman's Autograph Revisions of R. M. Bucke's Walt Whitman. New York University Press, 1974.

Articles

  • "Mark Twain Tries to Get the Last Laugh: Hadleyburg and Other Performances," 2006.
  • "Re-Adapting Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Novel on Film," 2006.
  • "The Twain-Cable Connection," 2005.
  • "The Tragedy of Mark Twain, by Pudd'nhead Wilson" (2002).
  • "White Readers and Black Slaves" in Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin. (2000).
  • "'As If I Were With You': The Performance of Whitman's Poetry," in The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (1995).
  • "The Address of The Scarlet Letter," in Readers in History (1993).
  • "Pilgrims' Politics: Steinbeck's Art of Conversion," in New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath (1990).
  • "Jim and Mark Twain: What Do Dey Stan' For?" Virginia Quarterly Review (1987).
  • "Seeing & Saying: The Dialectic of Emerson's Eloquence," in Emerson and His Legacy.