Dear Friends,
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association will hold its annual
meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, 9-11 November 2001, and, as usual, The Mark
Twain Circle will host a session as one of the more popular affiliated
groups. With the following Call for Papers, I invite complete papers or
detailed abstracts, due no late than 20 April 2001. My deadline to
report our program is 30 April. I look forward to hearing from you.
Philip W. Leon, Prof. of English, The Citadel, 171 Moultrie Street,
Charleston, SC 29409-6310.

                                            CALL FOR PAPERS
The Mark Twain Circle of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
invites papers for its session at the 2001 SAMLA Convention on the topic

                      "MARK TWAIN'S DETRACTORS AND DEFENDERS"

Beneath this broad topic might appear papers dealing with Mark Twain's
personal and/or his professional life. A typical paper for this session
might present interesting details about MT's friendship with, for
example, Henry Huttleston Rogers of Standard Oil who provided financial
advice following MT's bankruptcy. Another paper might present new
information about MT's friendship with non-literary figures such as
Ulysses S. Grant.

MT also had his detractors. Examples include his bitter feud with former
friend Bret Harte, or the vilification MT received in the national press
over his involvement with the anti-imperialism movement at the turn of
the century.

If you are pursuing a research question that might fit this general
topic, be sure to consult Paul Machlis' Union Catalog of Clemens Letters
(1986) and his Union Catalog of Letters to Clemens (1992). This also
would be a good starting point to discover little-known but interesting
personalities with whom MT corresponded.

If you have a special MT project that does not quite fit the Call for
Papers topic, please send it along, and perhaps we will be able to
fine-tune the program to accommodate  your paper.
Remember, the DEADLINE is 20 April 2001.