• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Male Friendship and Post Civil War America


• Chapter 2. Clemens and Twichell


• Chapter 3. Clemens, Twichell and Religion


• Chapter 4. 'My Dear 'Owells': Clemens and Howells


• Chapter 5. Clemens, Howells, and Realism


• Chapter 6. Clemens, Manhood, the Rogers Friendship, and 'Which Was the Dream?'


• Chapter 7. Clemens and Rogers: 'Both Members of This Club'


• Coda: Friendship's Limits: Fathers and Daughters Notes


• Index

Peter Messent is Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of several books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain and New Readings of the American Novel.

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.