Bruce Michelson is Professor of English and Director of the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Literary Wit and Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self, among other books.

"Astonishingly capacious and meticulous and, as a material history of print and image reproduction and distribution, [it] is a remarkable achievement." American Periodicals

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Samuel Clemens and the Printed Word 2. The Mischief of the Press 3. "But Now Everybody Goes Everywhere" 4. Huckleberry Finn and the American Print Revolution 5. Mark Twain and the Information Age Afterword: Mark Twain for the Next Fifteen Minutes Notes Bibliography Permissions Index

Bruce Michelson is Professor of English and Director of the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Literary Wit and Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self, among other books.

"Astonishingly capacious and meticulous and, as a material history of print and image reproduction and distribution, [it] is a remarkable achievement." American Periodicals

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Samuel Clemens and the Printed Word 2. The Mischief of the Press 3. "But Now Everybody Goes Everywhere" 4. Huckleberry Finn and the American Print Revolution 5. Mark Twain and the Information Age Afterword: Mark Twain for the Next Fifteen Minutes Notes Bibliography Permissions Index

Bruce Michelson is Professor of English and Director of the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Literary Wit and Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self, among other books.

"Astonishingly capacious and meticulous and, as a material history of print and image reproduction and distribution, [it] is a remarkable achievement." American Periodicals

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Samuel Clemens and the Printed Word 2. The Mischief of the Press 3. "But Now Everybody Goes Everywhere" 4. Huckleberry Finn and the American Print Revolution 5. Mark Twain and the Information Age Afterword: Mark Twain for the Next Fifteen Minutes Notes Bibliography Permissions Index