Mark Twain - Critical Assessments

List of contents

VOLUME I:
Three Biographical Responses
Introduction
Chronology of Twain's Life
Bibliography: Twain's Major Works
Bibliography: The Critical Response
Chronological List of Criticism Included
Acknowledgements

1. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and
Criticisms, (New York, London, 1910)


2. ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, Mark Twain: A Bior;raphy, The Personal
and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 3 vols (New York and London, 1912)


3. CLARACLEMENS, MyFather, Mark Twain, (NewYorkand
London, 1931)
VOLUME II:
Contemporary Reviews; Creative Writers' Responses
The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress (1869)


4. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Nation, IX, 2 Sept. 1869, pp. 194-5


5. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Packard's Monthly, II, Oct. 1869,
pp.318-19


6. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Buffalo Express, 16 Oct. 1869


7. TOM FOLIO, Evening Transcript, (Boston), 15 Dec. 1869, p. 1


8. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Innocents Abroad', Atlantic
Monthly, XXIV, Dec. 1869, pp. 764-6


9. BRET HARTE, Overland Monthly, IV,Jan. 1870, pp. 100-1


10. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 2239, 24 Sept. 1870,


1. 395-6


11. ANONYMOL'S REVIEW, Saturday Review, (London), XXX, 8 Oct.
1870,pp.467-8
Roughing It (1872)


12. ANONYMOL'S REVIEW, 'Uncivilised America', Manchester
Guardian, 6 March 1872, p. 7


13. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Overland Monthly, VIIl,June 1872,
pp.580-1


14. \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, Atlantic Monthly, XXIX,June 1872,


1. 48-9
The GildedAge (1873)


15. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Novels of the Week', The Athenaeum,
No.2411, l0Jan. 1874,p.53


16. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Graphic, (London), IX, 28 Feb. 1874,
p. 199


17. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'The Gilded Age', Old and New, (Boston),
IX, March 1874, pp. 386-8


18. \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Play from The Gilded Age',
Atlantic Monthly,June 1875; reprinted in My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms, (New York and London, 1910), pp.115-19
Sketches, New and Old (1875)


19. \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old',
Atlantic Month{}; XXXVI, Dec. 1875, pp. 749-51


20. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'American Literature', The Saturday
Review, (London), XLI, 29Jan. 1876, p. 154
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)


21. \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer',
Atlantic A1onth{l; XXXVII, May 1876, pp. 621-2


22. .-\:'\'Ol\'YMOL'S RE\1EW, [Moncure D. Conway], The Examine,;
17June 1876, pp. 687-8


23. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 2539, 24June 1876,
p.851


24. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Times, 28 Aug. 1876, p. 4


25. ANONThfOUSREVIEW, New York Times, 13Jan. 1877, p. 3
A Tramp Abroad (1880)


26. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Saturday Review, XLIX, 17 April 1880,


1. 514-15


27. ANONYMOUS REVIEW [William Ernest Henley], The Athenaeum,
No. 2739, 24 April 1880, pp. 529-30


28. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, The Atlantic Monthly, XLV, May 1880,
pp.686 8
The Prince and the Pauper (1881-2)


29. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 2826, 24 Dec. 1881,
p.849


30. ANONYMOUS REVIEW [H. H. Boyesen], 'Mark Twain's New
Departure', The Atlantic Monthly, XLVIII, Dec. 1881, pp.843-5


31. E. PURCELL, The Academy, XX, 24 Dec. 1881, p. 469


32. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Century Magazine, XXIII, March 1882,


1. 783-4
The Stolen White Elephant (1882)


33. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 2852, 24June 1882,
p.795


34. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Graphic, XXVI, 15July 1882, p. 62


35. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Westminster Review, ns LXII, Oct. 1882,


1. 576 7
Life on the Mississippi (1883)


36. LAFCADIO HEARN, Times Democrat, (New Orleans), 30 May
1882,p.4


37. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 2901, 2June 1883,


1. 694-5


38. ROBERT BROWN, The Academy, XXIV, 28July 1883, p. 58


39. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Graphic, XXVIII, 1 Sept. 1883, p. 231
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5)


40. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 2983, 27 Dec. 1884,
p.855


41. ANONYMOUS REVIEW [Brander Matthews], Saturday Review,
LIX,31Jan. 1885,pp.153-4


42. ANONYMOUS REVIEW [Robert Bridges], 'Mark Twain's
Blood-curdling Humor', Life, V, 26 Feb. 1885, p. 119


43. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Modern Comic Literature', Saturday
Review, (London), LIX, 7 March 1885, pp. 301-2


44. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Westminster Review, ns LXVII, April 1885,


1. 596 7


45. THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY, 'Mark Twain', Century Magazine,
XXX, May 1885, pp. 171-2


46. VICTOR FISCHER, 'Huck Finn Reviewed: The Reception of
HuckkberryFinnin the United States, 1885-97', American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, XVI, Spring, 1983, pp.1-57
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)


47. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Sunday Herald, (Boston), 15 Dec. 1889,
p.17


48. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Didactic Humorists', Speaker, I, 11Jan.
1890,pp.49-50


49. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Daily Tekgraph, (London), 13Jan. 1890


50. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Scot's Observer, VII, lJan. 1890, p. 10


51. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, Harper's Monthly, LXXX,Jan. 1890,
pp.319-21


52. DESMOND O'BRIEN, Truth, XXVII, 2Jan. 1890, p. 25


53. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3251, 15 Feb. 1890,

p.211
54, ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Literary World, (Boston), XXI, 15 Feb,
1890,pp.52-3

1. WILLIAM T. STEAD, 'Mark Twain's New Book; A Satirical Attack
on English Institutions', Review of Reviews I, Feb. 1890, pp.144-56


2. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Plumas National, (Quincy, California),
5July 1890, p. 2



The American Claimant (1892)


3. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Academy, XLII, 29 Oct. 1892, p. 386


4. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Bookman, (London), III, Nov. 1892,
p.60


5. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Spectator, (Supplement), No. 3360,
Nov. 1892, p. 714
The £1,000,000 Bank-note (1893)


6. ANONYMOUS REVIEWS, The Bookman, (London), IV,June 1893,
p.91


7. GEORGE SAINTSBURY, The Academy, XLIV, 8 July 1893, p. 28
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)


8. ANONYMOUS REVIEW [William Livingston Alden], 'The Book

Hunter', The Idler, VI, Aug. 1894, pp. 213-24
62. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 3508, 19Jan. 1895,
pp. 83-4

1. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Critic, XXVI, 11 May 1895, pp. 338-9
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)


2. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3474, 26 May 1894,
p.676


3. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Bookman, (London) ,June 1894,
pp. 89-90


4. E. K. CHAMBERS, The Academy, XLVI, 14July 1894, p. 27
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)


5. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'Joan of Arc', Harper's Weekly, XLI,
30 May 1896, pp. 335-9


6. WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT, 'Mark Twain as an Historical
Novelist', The Bookman, (New York), III, May 1896,
pp. 207-10



Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Tales (1896)


7. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Academy, LI, 2Jan. 1897, p.18


8. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3617, 20 Feb. 1897,
p.244
Following the Equator, or More Tramps Abroad (1897)


9. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Facts versus Fun', The Academy, Lil,
11 Dec. 1897, pp. 519-20


10. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Speaker, XVI, 11 Dec. 1897, p. 671


11. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Saturday Review (London), LXXXV,
29Jan. 1898,p.153


12. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Critic, XXXII, 5 Feb. 1898, pp. 89-90


13. HIRAMM. STANLEY, The Dial, XXIV, 16 March 1898, pp.186-7
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories (1900)


14. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Mark's New Way: The Afan that Corrupted
Hadleyburg', The Academy, LIX, 29 Sept. 1900, pp. 258-9


15. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Mark Twain's Aftermath: The Man that
CorruptedHadleyburg', The Outlook, VI, 29 Sept., 1900, p. 280


16. WILLIAM ARCHER, 'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg- 'A
New Parable', The Critic, XXXVII, Nov. 1900, pp. 413-15
A Double-barrelled Detective Story (1902)


17. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Saturday Review, (London), XCIV,
2 Aug. 1902, p.147


18. ANONYMOUSRE\'IEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3901, 2 Aug. 1902,
p.152
Extracts from Adam's Diary (1904)


19. ANOl\'YMOCS RE\'IEW [Harry Thurston Peck], 'Mark Twain at
Ebb Tide', The Bookman, (New York), XIX, May 1904,
pp. 235-6


20. .-\NOl\'ThlOCS RE\'IEW, 'Mark Twain's Latest', The Spertat01;
XCII, 11June 1904, pp. 925-6
King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905)


21. At\'ONYMOL'SREVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 4153, ljune 1907,
p.664


22. ANONYMOL'SREVIEW, Punch, CXXXII, 19June 1907, p. 451


23. ANONYMOL'SREVIEW, The Bookman, (London), XXXII,July
1907, p. 150
What is Man? (1906)


24. JOHN ADAMS, 'Mark Twain as Psychologist', The Bookman,
(London), XXXIX, March 1911, pp. 270-2
Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)


25. H. L. MENCKEN, Smart Set, XXVIII, Aug. 1909, p.157
Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven ( 1909)


26. ANONYMOUS REVIEW,' Captain Stonnfield's Visit to Heaven', The
Literary Digest, XL, lJan. 1910, p. 33
Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924)


27. At\'ONYMOl!S REVIEW, 'Mark Twain's Autobiography', The Times
LiterarJ SupjJlement, 6 Nov. 1924, p. 701


28. LEONARD WOOU 'The World of Books', The Nation & The
Athenaeurn, XXXVI, 8 Nov. 1924, p. 217
The Florida Edition of Mark Twain (1925)


29. LEONARD WOOLF, 'The World of Books', The Nation & The
Athenaeum', XXXVI, 26 Sept. 1925, p. 765
Creative Writers' Responses


30. HENRY ADAMS, Letter to Elizabeth Cameron, 8 April 190 l; in
Worthington Chauncey Ford (ed.), Letters of HenrJ Adams,
(Boston and New York, 1938), pp. 326-7


31. SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Letters to Van Wyck Brooks, April
1918-July 1923; in Howard Mumford Jones (ed.), Letters of Sherwood Anderson, (Kraus Reprint, New York, 1969),
pp. 30-47, 104


32. MATTHEW ARNOLD, 'A Word About America'; in Civilisation in
the United States: First and Last Impressions, (Boston, 1888),
pp. 91-2


33. W.H.AUDEN, 'Huck and Oliver', TheListener,L,Oct.1953,
pp. 540-1


34. CHARLIE REILLY, 'An Interview with John Barth', Contemporary
Literature, XXII, Winter, 1981, pp.1-23


35. ARNOLD BENNETT, Comment on Mark Twain, Bookman,
(London), XXXVIII,June 1910, p.118


36. WALTER BESANT, 'My Favourite Novelist and His Best Book',
Munsey's Magazine, XVIII, Feb. 1898, pp. 659-64


37. CAREYMcWILLIAMS, Abrose Bierce: A Biography, (Archon Books,
1967), p. 88


38. MALCOLM BRADBURY, 'Mark Twain in the Gilded Age', The
Critical Quarterly, XI, Spring, 1969, pp. 65-73


39. GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, Speech at the Memorial
Service for Mark Twain, 30 November 1910, Proceedings of the American Academy and Nationallnstitute (1911),
pp. 21-4


40. G.K.CHESTERTON, 'Mark Twain', T. P.'s Weekly, 19April 1910,
pp.535-6


41. DAVID LEON HIGDON, 'Conrad and Mark Twain: A Newly
Discovered Essay', journal of Modern Literature, XII,July 1985,
pp. 354-61


42. THEODORE DREISER, 'Mark the Double Twain', English journal,
XXIV, Oct. 1935, pp. 615-26


43. T. s. ELIOT, Introduction to Huck/,eberryFinn, The Cresset
Press, (London, 1950), pp. vii-xvi. 'American Literature and the American Language', an Address delivered at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 9June 1953; reprinted in To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings, (London, 1965), pp. 43-60


44. RALPH ELLISON, 'The Seer and the Seen' (1946); 'Change the
Joke and Slip the Yoke' (1958); 'Some Questions and Some Answers' (1958). All reprinted in Shadow and Act, (New York, 1964),pp.24-44,45-59,261-72


45. JAMEST.FARRELL, 'MarkTwain'sHuck/,eberryFinnand Tom

Sawyer', The League of Frightened Philistines and Other Papers,
(New York, 1945), pp. 25-30
109.
WILLIAM FAULKNER, 'Classroom Statements at the University
of Mississippi' (1947); 'Interviews in Japan' (1955); in James
B. Meriwether and Michael Millgate (eds), Lion in the Garden:
Interviews with WilliamFaulkner, 1926-1962, (NewYork, 1968),
ll0.
pp.56, 137
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, '10 Best Books I Have Read',Jersey City
Journal (24 April 1923); [The Centenary of Mark Twain's
Birth, 1935], Fitzgerald Newsletter, No. 8, Winter, 1960; Letter
to Morton Kroll, (9 Aug. 1939), Andrew Turnbull (ed.), The
ll 1.
Letters ofF Scott Fitzgerald, (London, 1964), p. 593
HAMLIN GARIAND, 'Tributes to Mark Twain', North American
112.
Review, CXCI,June 1910, pp. 833-4
HENRYHARIAND, 'Mark Twain', Daily Chronicle, (London),
ll Dec. 1899
ll 3.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS,Julia Collier Harris, The Life and
114.
Letters ofJoel Chandler Harris, (London, 1919), pp. 168-9
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Green Hills of Africa, (New York, 1935),
115.
pp. 22-3
LANGSTON HUGHES, 'Introduction' to Pudd'nhead Wilson,
(Bantam Books, New York, 1959), pp. vii-xiii
116.
WILLIAMJAMES, Letter toJosiah Royce, 18 Dec. 1892; Letter to
Francis Boot, 30Jan. 1893; Letter to HenryJames and
WilliamJames,Jr, Feb. 1907, HenryJames (ed.), The Letters of
William]ames, (Boston, 1920), I, pp. 333, 341-2, II, p. 264
117.
RUDYARD KIPLING, 'An Interview with Mark Twain', From Sea to
Sea, (London, 1900), pp. 182-98
118.
D. H. LAWRENCE, 'Max Havelaar, by E. D. Dekker (Multatuli,
pseud.) ', Edward D. McDonald (ed.), Phoenix: The Posthumous
Papers ofD. H. Lawrence, (London, 1936), pp. 236-9
ll9.
VACHEL LINDSAY, 'The Raft', The Chinese Nightingale and Other
Poems, (New York, 1917), pp. 71-4
120.
NORMAN MAILER, 'Huck Finn, Alive at 100', The New York Times
121.
Book Review, LXXXIX, 9 Dec. 1984, pp. 1, 36-7
EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Mark Twain: A Portrait, (New York, 1938),
pp.85-102,240-2
122.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 'The Classic Books of America', The
Saturday Evening Post, 6 Jan. 1940, pp. 29, 64-6
123.
H. L. MENCKEN, 'The Burden of Humor', Smart Set, Feb. 1913,
pp.151-4; 'The Man Within', Smart Set, Oct. 1919,
pp.139-43
124.
WRIGHT MORRIS, 'The Available Past: Mark Twain', The
Territory Ahead: Critical Interpretations of American Literature,
(New York, 1958), pp. 79-90; Foreword to Pudd'nhead Wilson,
(New American Library, New York, 1964), pp. vii-xvii

1. GEORGE ORWELL, 'Mark Twain-The Licensed Jester',
Tribune, 26 Nm·. 1943


2. \'. S. PRITCHETT, 'Books in General', New Statesman and Nation,
CXIII, 2Aug. 1941, p.113


3. BERNARD SHAW, 'Mark Twain and Joan of Arc', Preface to
Stjoan, (New York, London, 1924), pp.xxv-xli


4. UPTON SINClAIR, 'The Uncrowned King', Mammonart: An
Essay in Eronomir Interpretation, (Pasadena, 1924), pp. 326-33


5. BOOTH TARKINGTON, 'Tributes to Mark Twain', North
American Review, CXCI,June 1910, pp. 830-1


6. ALLEN TATE, 'A Southern Mode of Imagination', (1959),
Essays a/Four Decades, (Chicago, 1968), pp. 577-92


7. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, 'Tributes to Mark Twain', North
American Review, CXCI,June 1910, pp. 828-30


8. THOl'vU\.S WOLFE, Letter to Sherwood Anderson, 22 Sept. 1937,
Elizabeth Nowell (ed.), Selected Letters of Thomas Wolfe,
(London, 1958),pp.283-6


9. ROBERT PE"1N WARREN, 'Mark Twain', The Southern Review,
VIII, Summer, 1972, pp. 459-92


10. HERMAN \.\'OUK, 'America's Voice is Mark Twain's', San
Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 1956, p. 20
VOLUME III:
Critical Essays
'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' (1867)


11. S.J. KRAUSE, 'The Art and Satire of Twain's 'Jumping Frog"
Story', American Quarterl); XVI, Winter, 1964, pp. 562-76.


12. EDGAR M. BRANCH, '"My Voice is still for Setchell": A
Background Study of 'Jim Smiley and hisJumping Frog"',
PMLA, LXXXII, December 1967, pp. 591-601
The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress (1869)


13. LESLIE:\. FIEDLER, 'An American Abroad', Partisan Review,
XXXIII, \'\'inter, 1966, pp. 77-91


14. ROBERT EDSON LEE, From Hes/ to East: Studies in the Literature of
the A.me1iran West, (Urbana and London, 1966), pp. 98-9


15. FORREST G. ROBI:S:SOl\, 'Patterns of Consciousness in The
Innocents A.broad', A.11mira n Literature, L\1II, March 1986,
pp. 46-63
Roughing It (1872)


16. HENRY NASH SMITH, 'Mark Twain as an Interpreter of the Far
West: The Structure of Roughing It'; in Walker D. Wyman and Clifton B. Kroebes (eds), The Frontier in Perspective, (Madison, 1957), pp. 206-27


17. LEE CLARK MITCHELL, 'Verbally Roughing It: The West of
Words', Nineteenth Century Literature, XLIV, June 1989, pp.67-92


18. TOM H. TOWERS, '"Hateful Reality": The Failure of the
Territory in Roughing It', Western American Literature, IX, May 1974,pp.3-15
The Gilded Age (1873)


19. PHILIPS. FONER, 'The Gilded Age'; from Mark Twain Social
Critic, (New York, 1958), pp. 110-34


20. JUSTIN D. KAPU\N, Introduction to The Gilded Age,
(Washington Paperback Edition, Seattle and London, 1968)
'Old Times on the Mississippi' (1875)
Life on the Mississippi (1883)


21. PAUL SCHMIDT, 'River vs Town: Mark Twain's "Old Times on
the Mississippi"', Nineteenth Century Fiction, XV,June 1960, pp.95-111


22. DEWEYGANZEL, 'Twain, Travel Books, and Life on the
Mississippi', American Literature, XXXIV, March 1962, pp.40-55


23. MARILYN IANC-\STER, 'Twain's Search for Reality in Life on the
MississipjJi, The Midwest Quarterly, XXXIII, Winter, 1992,
pp. 210-21
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)


24. HAMLIN L. HILL, 'The Composition and the Structure of Tom
Sawyer', American Literature, XXXIl,Jan. 1961, pp. 379-92


25. BERNARD DEVOTO, 'The Phantasy of Boyhood: Tom Sawyer';
from Mark Twain at Work, (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), pp. 3-24


26. TOM H. TOWERS, '"I Never Thought We Might Want to Come
Back": Strategies of Transcendence in Tom Sawyer', Modern Fiction Studies, XXI, Winter, 1975, pp. 509-20


27. CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A
Nightmare Vision of American Boyhood', The Massachusetts Review, XXI, Winter, 1980, pp. 637-52
The Prince and the Pauper (1881-2)


28. FRANKLIN R. ROGERS, 'The Craft of the Novel'; from Mark
Twain's Burlesque Patterns, (Dallas, 1960), pp. 113-27


29. ROBERT REGAN, 'Dreams and Glory'; from Unpromising Heroes:
Mark Twain and His Characters, (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966), pp. 143-54


30. LOUIS]. BL'DD, 'The Year of Jubilee'; from Our Mark Twain:
The Making of His Public Personality, (Philadelphia, 1983),
pp. 86-7
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5)


31. LESLIE A. FIEDLER, 'Come Back to the RaftAg'in, Huck
Honey!', Partisan Review, XV, June 1948, pp. 269-76


32. LIONEL TRILLING, Introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, (Rinehart Editions, New York, 1948)


33. LEO MARX, 'Mr Eliot, Mr Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn', The
American Scholar, XXII, (Autumn, 1953), pp. 423-40


34. JAMES M. cox, 'Remarks on the Sad Initiation of Huckleberry
Finn', Swanee Review, LXII,July-Sept. 1954, pp. 389-405


35. WILLIAM \'AN O'CONNOR, 'Why Huckleberry Finn is not the
Great American Novel', College English, XVII, Oct. 1955,
pp. 6-10


36. WALTER BLAIR, 'When Was Huckleberry Finn Written?',
American Literature, XXX, March 1958, pp.1-25


37. LESLIE FIEDLER, 'Accommodation and Transcendence'; from
Love and Death in the American Novel, (New York, 1960), pp.567-74


38. A. E. DYSON, 'Huckleberry Finn and the Whole Truth', Critical
Quarter!); III, Spring, 1961, pp. 29-40


39. CHADV.1CKHANSEN, 'The Character of Jim and the Ending of
Hucklebe,-ry Finn', The Massachusetts Review, V, Autumn, 1963,
pp. 45-66


40. HAROLD BEA\'ER, 'Run, Nigger, Run: Adventures of HucklebenJ
Finn as a FugitiYe SlaYe Narratiye' ,Journal of American Studies,
\111, Dec. 1974, pp. 339-61


41. MILLICE:\'T BELL, 'HucklebenJFinn:journey Without End',
Virginia Quarter(y Review, L\111, Spring, 1982, pp. 253-67


42. JOHN H. WAUACE, 'Huckl,eberry Finn is Offensive', Washingt,on
Post, 11 April 1982


43. DAVID L. SMITH, 'Huck,Jim, and American Racial Discourse',
Mark Twain journal, XXII, Fall, 1984, pp. 4-12


44. ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and
Afro-American Literature', Mark Twainjournal, XXII, Fall, 1984,pp.47-52
'A Private History of a Campaign that Failed' (1885)


45. J. STANLEY MATTSON, 'Mark Twain on War and Peace: The
Missouri Rebel and 'The Campaign that Failed'", American Quarterly, XX, Winter, 1968, pp. 783-94
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)


46. HOWARD G. BAETZHOLD, 'The Course of Composition of A
Connecticut Yankee: A Reinterpretation', American Literature,
XXXIII, May 1961, pp. 195-214


47. JUDITH FETTERLEY, 'Yankee Showman and Reformer: The
Character of Mark Twain's Hank Morgan', Texas Studies in Language and Literature, XIV, Winter, 1973, pp. 667-79


48. RICHARD s. PRESSMAN, 'A Connecticut Yankee in Merlin's
Cave. The Role of Contradiction in Mark Twain's Novel',
American Literary Realism: 1870-1910, XVI, Autumn, 1983,
pp. 58-72
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)


49. LESLIE FIEDLER, 'As Free as Any Cretur .. .', The New Republic,
CXXXIII, 15 Aug. 1955, pp. 17-18; 22 Aug. 1955, pp. 16-18.


50. F. R. LEAVIS, Introduction to Zodiac Press Edition, (London,
1955)


51. STANLEYBRODWIN, 'Blackness and the Adamic Myth in Mark
Twain's Pudd 'nhead Wilson', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, XV, Spring, 1973, pp. 167-76


52. MYRAJEHLEN, 'The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in
Pudd 'nhead Wilson', American Literary History, II, Spring, 1990,
pp. 39-55
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)


53. ALBERT E. STONE,Jr, 'Mark Twain's Joan of Arc: The Child as
Goddess', American Literature, XXXI, March 1959, pp.1-20


54. CHRISTINA ZWARG, 'Woman as Force in Twain's Joan of Arc:
The Unwordable Fascination', Criticism, Winter, 1985, pp.57-72
Following the Equator, or More Tramps Abroad (1897)


55. MAX'v\'ELLGEISMAR, 'Failure and Triumph'; in Mark Twain: An
American Prophet, (Boston, 1970), pp. 165-87
'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg' (1899)


56. St:SAN K. HARRIS,' "Hadleyburg": Mark Twain's Dual Attack on
Banal Theology and Banal Literature', American Literary Realism; 1870-1910, XVI, Autumn, 1983, pp. 240-52
What is Man? (1906)


57. SHERWOOD CUMMINGS, 'What is Man?: The Scientific
Sources'; in Sydney]. Krause (ed.), Essays on Determinism in American Literature (Kent State University Press, 1964),
pp. 108-16
The Mysterious Stranger (1916)


58. STANLEYBRODWIN, 'Mark Twain's Masks of Satan: The Final
Phase', American Literature, XLV, May 1973, pp. 206-27


VOLUME IV:
Twentieth-century Overview
The First Decade


59. \\lLLIAl\l LYO:-- PHELPS, ''.\fark Twain', Xorth A111e1ican Review,
CLXXX\',July 1907. pp. 540-8


60. STUARTP. SHERMAN, 'Mark Twain', Nation, XC, May 1910,
pp.477-80


61. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, 'The International Fame of Mark
Twain', North American Review, CXCII, Dec. 1910, pp. 805-15
The Brooks-DeVoto Controversy


62. VAN \WCK BROOKS, The Ordeal of Mark Twain, (New York, 1920;
revised, 1933)


63. BERNARD DEVOTO, Mark Twain's America, (Boston, 1932)
The Frontier and the West


64. CARL VANDOREN, 'The Fruits of the Frontier', Nation, CXI,
Aug. 1920, p. 189


65. VERNONL. PARRINGTON, 'The Backwash of the Frontier'; from
The Begi,nnings of Critical Realism, (New York, 1930),
pp. 86-101


66. GRANVILLE HICKS, 'A Banjo on My Knee'; from The Great
Tradition, (New York, 1933), pp. 39-49


67. ROBERT EDSON LEE, 'From West to East: Mark Twain'; from
.From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West,
(Urbana and London, 1966), pp. 82-6


68. STEPHEN FENDER, ''The Prodigal in a Far Country Chawing of
Husks": Mark Twain's Search for a Style in the West', The Modern Language Review, LXXI, Oct. 1976, pp. 737-56
Mark Twain's Humour


69. CONSTANCE ROURKE, from Native American Humor, (New York,
1931), pp. 211-20


70. JOHN c. GERBER, 'Mark Twain's Use of the Comic Pose',
PMLA, LXXVII,June 1962, pp. 297-304


71. HENRY NASH SMITH, 'Two Ways of Viewing the World'; from
Mark Twain: the Development of a Writer, (Cambridge, Mass., 1962),pp.1-11,20-1


About the author

Stuart Hutchinson teaches at the University of Kent.


Summary

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before. It is evidence of Twain's greatness that these last two sentences from Huckleberry Finn still say something fundamental about the American experience. For instance, in the 1990s, they are re-enacted in the closing moments of the movie Thelma and Louise , a film which reworks Huckleberry Finn 's themes of fleeting love, exploitation, betrayal, injustice, and murderous violence all lurking in the promise of New World space. The missed opportunity is tragic when it is not comic. It was the originality and centrality of Twain that William Dean Howells had in mind when he described Twain as sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature. By the 1920s, however, Van Wyck Brooks found little to celebrate in Twain's literary career. In a famous American critical contest, he was answered by Bernard DeVoto, for whom no other writer contemporary with Twain touched American life in so many places. Volume I offers three essential biographies by William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine, and Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens. Volume II contains contemporary reviews and responses to Twain's work, arranged chronologically by title and concludes with a large section of assessments by approximately forty other creative writers. Volume III presents critical essays on all of Twain's essential works, grouped chronologically by title. Volume IV offers a twentieth-century overview of Twain, covering central themes such as The Frontier and the West; Mark Twain's Humor; The South, Slavery and Race; and Mark Twain and Sexuality. It concludes with a number of general essays.

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"A necessary purchase for any American literature reference collection." -- Reference Book Review

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• Assisted by: Stuart Hutchinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.1993
• EAN: 9781873403099
• ISBN: 978-1-873403-09-9
• No. of pages: 1816
• Weight: 3424 g
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• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies