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“For I was afriad of the Church,” illustration by Dan Beard. First appearing in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889).
The public is invited to attend the 2026 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies and supported by the generous donations of The Mark Twain Foundation. The final, free lecture is 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28 in the Barn at Quarry Farm, with a presentation by Ray Horton, Associate Professor of English at Murray State University.
Entitled “The Mundane Transcendence of Mark Twain’s Late Style,” Horton’s presentation will explore Twain’s later works. While some have viewed Twain’s later writing as a rejection of religion and mysticism due to modern disenchantment, Horton views it differently. He sees not a rejection of religion, but instead, a rejection of harmony and resolution. Twain’s fragmented late style is seeking meaning to counter the uncertainty of the time.
Horton was named the “2023 College Teacher of the Year” by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English. He was a 2025 Quarry Farm Fellow at the Center for Mark Twain Studies, and he currently serves as President of the American Religion and Literature Society. His work has appeared in PMLA, Christianity & Literature, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, and Post-45. His book project in progress, tentatively titled “American Fiction’s Secular Faith,” examines the relationship between aesthetic attention and religious experience in American fiction from the late nineteenth century to the present, spanning from Mark Twain to Marilynne Robinson.
Click here for recordings of lectures in The Trouble Begins Lecture Series.
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 or at Peterson Chapel in Cowles Hall on Elmira College's campus. All lectures are free and open to the public.
