Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Joseph Csicsila and Chad Rohman -- I. Cross-Cultural and Transnational Mappings in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger -- "I ain' no dread being": The Minstrel Mask as Alter Ego Sharon D. McCoy -- Mark Twain's Last Cakewalk: Racialized Performance in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger Henry B. Wonham -- "The Chronicle of Young Satan" and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: A Transnationalist Reading Peter Messent -- Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl and Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger: German Literature and the Composition of the Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts Horst Kruse -- II. Prophecy, Pleasure, Pain, and Redemption in the Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts -- The Prophetic Imagination, the Liberal Self, and the Ending of No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger Harold K. Bush, Jr. -- Mark Twain and the Accusing Angel: "The Chronicle of Young Satan" and Samuel Clemens's Argument with the Inscrutable Michael J. Kiskis -- Transcendental Hedonism? Sex, Song, Food, and Drink in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger and "My Platonic Sweetheart" Gregg Camfield -- "Silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks": Multiple Selves, Wordless Communication, and the Psychology of Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger Randall Knoper -- III. Structural, Temporal, and Philosophical Paradox in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger -- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: The Final Soliloquy of a "Littery Man"James S. Leonard -- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger as Literary Comedy David E. E. Sloane -- Samuel Clemens, Duality, and Time Travel David Lionel Sm ith -- Dreams and Metaphors in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger John Bird -- Mark Twain's Mysterious Strangers and the Motions of the Mind Bruce Michelson -- Afterword: Mark Twain's Postmodern Tale Found in a Jug Alan Gribben.

Bibliography and Critical Resources for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.