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The spring 2023 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS), continues at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 31 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. The lectures are free and open to the public and recordings of the lectures will be posted to the CMTS website.
This week’s lecture features Lawrence Howe, Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies at Roosevelt University. He is a former president of the Mark Twain Circle of America and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Center for Mark Twain Studies. Howe’s published works include Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority and a piece he co-wrote with Harry Wonham titled, Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture. Many of Howe’s articles focus on Mark Twain and Gilded Age economics.
In his upcoming lecture titled, “Mark Twain, Property, and Poetry,“ Howe will discuss several “neglected” poems Mark Twain wrote early in his career. Twain is famous for writing prose but occasionally wrote satirical verse, most often about property and inheritance. Howe contends that unlike Samuel Clemens, who embraced the American ethos of ownership, Mark Twain reveals skepticism about the language of ownership.
Howe’s lecture is the final spring 2023 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series. Visit Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series for recordings of previously held lectures.
In 1984, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies initiated a lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title came from the handbill advertising Mark Twain's October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire's Academy of Music in San Francisco. The first lectures were presented in 1985. By invitation, Mark Twain scholars present lectures in the fall and spring of each year, in the Barn at Quarry Farm. All lectures are free and open to the public.
