The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes back Matt Seybold to the Trouble Begins stage for a lecture and discuss about Percival Everett’s new book James.This is a FREE event sponsored by Kathleen and Davin Jimenez. A recording will be available after the program.
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About the program:
On March 19th of this year, Doubleday published a new novel by Percival Everett, for which they reportedly paid more than $500,000, by far the biggest advance of Everett’s long and now quite-decorated career. The novel, James, is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Huck’s self-emancipated traveling companion, Jim. Seybold argues that Everett’s novel will be many things to many readers, among them an incisive work of Twain Studies, as the narrative directly addresses many of the critical controversies associated with Huckleberry Finn since its publication.
About the Speaker: Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as Resident Scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies. He is also the founding director of the Media Studies, Communications, & Design program at Elmira College, executive producer and host of The American Vandal Podcast, and founding editor of MarkTwainStudies.org. He is coeditor (with Michelle Chihara) of The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics (2018) and (with Gordon Hutner) of a 2019 special issue of American Literary History on “Economics & Literary Studies in The New Gilded Age.” His work has appeared in dozens of publications.
