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.
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
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and
- ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, Mark Twain: A Bior;raphy, The Personal
- CLARACLEMENS, MyFather, Mark Twain, (NewYorkand
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Nation, IX, 2 Sept. 1869, pp. 194-5
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Packard's Monthly, II, Oct. 1869,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Buffalo Express, 16 Oct. 1869
- TOM FOLIO, Evening Transcript, (Boston), 15 Dec. 1869, p. 1
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Innocents Abroad', Atlantic
- BRET HARTE, Overland Monthly, IV,Jan. 1870, pp. 100-1
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 2239, 24 Sept. 1870,
- 395-6
- ANONYMOL'S REVIEW, Saturday Review, (London), XXX, 8 Oct.
- ANONYMOL'S REVIEW, 'Uncivilised America', Manchester
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Overland Monthly, VIIl,June 1872,
- \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, Atlantic Monthly, XXIX,June 1872,
- 48-9
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Novels of the Week', The Athenaeum,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Graphic, (London), IX, 28 Feb. 1874,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'The Gilded Age', Old and New, (Boston),
- \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Play from The Gilded Age',
- \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old',
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'American Literature', The Saturday
- \\1LLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer',
- .-\:'\'Ol\'YMOL'S RE\1EW, [Moncure D. Conway], The Examine,;
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 2539, 24June 1876,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Times, 28 Aug. 1876, p. 4
- ANONThfOUSREVIEW, New York Times, 13Jan. 1877, p. 3
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Saturday Review, XLIX, 17 April 1880,
- 514-15
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW [William Ernest Henley], The Athenaeum,
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, The Atlantic Monthly, XLV, May 1880,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 2826, 24 Dec. 1881,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW [H. H. Boyesen], 'Mark Twain's New
- E. PURCELL, The Academy, XX, 24 Dec. 1881, p. 469
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Century Magazine, XXIII, March 1882,
- 783-4
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 2852, 24June 1882,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Graphic, XXVI, 15July 1882, p. 62
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Westminster Review, ns LXII, Oct. 1882,
- 576 7
- LAFCADIO HEARN, Times Democrat, (New Orleans), 30 May
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 2901, 2June 1883,
- 694-5
- ROBERT BROWN, The Academy, XXIV, 28July 1883, p. 58
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Graphic, XXVIII, 1 Sept. 1883, p. 231
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 2983, 27 Dec. 1884,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW [Brander Matthews], Saturday Review,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW [Robert Bridges], 'Mark Twain's
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Modern Comic Literature', Saturday
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Westminster Review, ns LXVII, April 1885,
- 596 7
- THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY, 'Mark Twain', Century Magazine,
- VICTOR FISCHER, 'Huck Finn Reviewed: The Reception of
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Sunday Herald, (Boston), 15 Dec. 1889,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Didactic Humorists', Speaker, I, 11Jan.
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Daily Tekgraph, (London), 13Jan. 1890
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Scot's Observer, VII, lJan. 1890, p. 10
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, Harper's Monthly, LXXX,Jan. 1890,
- DESMOND O'BRIEN, Truth, XXVII, 2Jan. 1890, p. 25
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3251, 15 Feb. 1890,
Criticisms, (New York, London, 1910)
and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 3 vols (New York and London, 1912)
London, 1931)
VOLUME II:
Contemporary Reviews; Creative Writers' Responses
The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress (1869)
pp.318-19
Monthly, XXIV, Dec. 1869, pp. 764-6
1870,pp.467-8
Roughing It (1872)
Guardian, 6 March 1872, p. 7
pp.580-1
The GildedAge (1873)
No.2411, l0Jan. 1874,p.53
p. 199
IX, March 1874, pp. 386-8
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)
Atlantic Month{}; XXXVI, Dec. 1875, pp. 749-51
Review, (London), XLI, 29Jan. 1876, p. 154
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Atlantic A1onth{l; XXXVII, May 1876, pp. 621-2
17June 1876, pp. 687-8
p.851
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
No. 2739, 24 April 1880, pp. 529-30
pp.686 8
The Prince and the Pauper (1881-2)
p.849
Departure', The Atlantic Monthly, XLVIII, Dec. 1881, pp.843-5
The Stolen White Elephant (1882)
p.795
Life on the Mississippi (1883)
1882,p.4
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5)
p.855
LIX,31Jan. 1885,pp.153-4
Blood-curdling Humor', Life, V, 26 Feb. 1885, p. 119
Review, (London), LIX, 7 March 1885, pp. 301-2
XXX, May 1885, pp. 171-2
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)
p.17
1890,pp.49-50
pp.319-21
p.211
54, ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Literary World, (Boston), XXI, 15 Feb,
1890,pp.52-3
- WILLIAM T. STEAD, 'Mark Twain's New Book; A Satirical Attack
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Plumas National, (Quincy, California),
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Academy, XLII, 29 Oct. 1892, p. 386
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Bookman, (London), III, Nov. 1892,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Spectator, (Supplement), No. 3360,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEWS, The Bookman, (London), IV,June 1893,
- GEORGE SAINTSBURY, The Academy, XLIV, 8 July 1893, p. 28
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW [William Livingston Alden], 'The Book
on English Institutions', Review of Reviews I, Feb. 1890, pp.144-56
5July 1890, p. 2
The American Claimant (1892)
p.60
Nov. 1892, p. 714
The £1,000,000 Bank-note (1893)
p.91
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
Hunter', The Idler, VI, Aug. 1894, pp. 213-24
62. ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Athenaeum, No. 3508, 19Jan. 1895,
pp. 83-4
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Critic, XXVI, 11 May 1895, pp. 338-9
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3474, 26 May 1894,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Bookman, (London) ,June 1894,
- E. K. CHAMBERS, The Academy, XLVI, 14July 1894, p. 27
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'Joan of Arc', Harper's Weekly, XLI,
- WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT, 'Mark Twain as an Historical
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Academy, LI, 2Jan. 1897, p.18
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3617, 20 Feb. 1897,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Facts versus Fun', The Academy, Lil,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Speaker, XVI, 11 Dec. 1897, p. 671
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, Saturday Review (London), LXXXV,
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Critic, XXXII, 5 Feb. 1898, pp. 89-90
- HIRAMM. STANLEY, The Dial, XXIV, 16 March 1898, pp.186-7
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Mark's New Way: The Afan that Corrupted
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, 'Mark Twain's Aftermath: The Man that
- WILLIAM ARCHER, 'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg- 'A
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW, The Saturday Review, (London), XCIV,
- ANONYMOUSRE\'IEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 3901, 2 Aug. 1902,
- ANOl\'YMOCS RE\'IEW [Harry Thurston Peck], 'Mark Twain at
- .-\NOl\'ThlOCS RE\'IEW, 'Mark Twain's Latest', The Spertat01;
- At\'ONYMOL'SREVIEW, TheAthenaeum, No. 4153, ljune 1907,
- ANONYMOL'SREVIEW, Punch, CXXXII, 19June 1907, p. 451
- ANONYMOL'SREVIEW, The Bookman, (London), XXXII,July
- JOHN ADAMS, 'Mark Twain as Psychologist', The Bookman,
- H. L. MENCKEN, Smart Set, XXVIII, Aug. 1909, p.157
- ANONYMOUS REVIEW,' Captain Stonnfield's Visit to Heaven', The
- At\'ONYMOl!S REVIEW, 'Mark Twain's Autobiography', The Times
- LEONARD WOOU 'The World of Books', The Nation & The
- LEONARD WOOLF, 'The World of Books', The Nation & The
- HENRY ADAMS, Letter to Elizabeth Cameron, 8 April 190 l; in
- SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Letters to Van Wyck Brooks, April
- MATTHEW ARNOLD, 'A Word About America'; in Civilisation in
- W.H.AUDEN, 'Huck and Oliver', TheListener,L,Oct.1953,
- CHARLIE REILLY, 'An Interview with John Barth', Contemporary
- ARNOLD BENNETT, Comment on Mark Twain, Bookman,
- WALTER BESANT, 'My Favourite Novelist and His Best Book',
- CAREYMcWILLIAMS, Abrose Bierce: A Biography, (Archon Books,
- MALCOLM BRADBURY, 'Mark Twain in the Gilded Age', The
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, Speech at the Memorial
- G.K.CHESTERTON, 'Mark Twain', T. P.'s Weekly, 19April 1910,
- DAVID LEON HIGDON, 'Conrad and Mark Twain: A Newly
- THEODORE DREISER, 'Mark the Double Twain', English journal,
- T. s. ELIOT, Introduction to Huck/,eberryFinn, The Cresset
- RALPH ELLISON, 'The Seer and the Seen' (1946); 'Change the
- JAMEST.FARRELL, 'MarkTwain'sHuck/,eberryFinnand Tom
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
p.676
pp. 89-90
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
30 May 1896, pp. 335-9
Novelist', The Bookman, (New York), III, May 1896,
pp. 207-10
Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Tales (1896)
p.244
Following the Equator, or More Tramps Abroad (1897)
11 Dec. 1897, pp. 519-20
29Jan. 1898,p.153
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories (1900)
Hadleyburg', The Academy, LIX, 29 Sept. 1900, pp. 258-9
CorruptedHadleyburg', The Outlook, VI, 29 Sept., 1900, p. 280
New Parable', The Critic, XXXVII, Nov. 1900, pp. 413-15
A Double-barrelled Detective Story (1902)
2 Aug. 1902, p.147
p.152
Extracts from Adam's Diary (1904)
Ebb Tide', The Bookman, (New York), XIX, May 1904,
pp. 235-6
XCII, 11June 1904, pp. 925-6
King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905)
p.664
1907, p. 150
What is Man? (1906)
(London), XXXIX, March 1911, pp. 270-2
Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)
Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven ( 1909)
Literary Digest, XL, lJan. 1910, p. 33
Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924)
LiterarJ SupjJlement, 6 Nov. 1924, p. 701
Athenaeurn, XXXVI, 8 Nov. 1924, p. 217
The Florida Edition of Mark Twain (1925)
Athenaeum', XXXVI, 26 Sept. 1925, p. 765
Creative Writers' Responses
Worthington Chauncey Ford (ed.), Letters of HenrJ Adams,
(Boston and New York, 1938), pp. 326-7
1918-July 1923; in Howard Mumford Jones (ed.), Letters of Sherwood Anderson, (Kraus Reprint, New York, 1969),
pp. 30-47, 104
the United States: First and Last Impressions, (Boston, 1888),
pp. 91-2
pp. 540-1
Literature, XXII, Winter, 1981, pp.1-23
(London), XXXVIII,June 1910, p.118
Munsey's Magazine, XVIII, Feb. 1898, pp. 659-64
1967), p. 88
Critical Quarterly, XI, Spring, 1969, pp. 65-73
Service for Mark Twain, 30 November 1910, Proceedings of the American Academy and Nationallnstitute (1911),
pp. 21-4
pp.535-6
Discovered Essay', journal of Modern Literature, XII,July 1985,
pp. 354-61
XXIV, Oct. 1935, pp. 615-26
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
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
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
- GEORGE ORWELL, 'Mark Twain-The Licensed Jester',
- \'. S. PRITCHETT, 'Books in General', New Statesman and Nation,
- BERNARD SHAW, 'Mark Twain and Joan of Arc', Preface to
- UPTON SINClAIR, 'The Uncrowned King', Mammonart: An
- BOOTH TARKINGTON, 'Tributes to Mark Twain', North
- ALLEN TATE, 'A Southern Mode of Imagination', (1959),
- BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, 'Tributes to Mark Twain', North
- THOl'vU\.S WOLFE, Letter to Sherwood Anderson, 22 Sept. 1937,
- ROBERT PE"1N WARREN, 'Mark Twain', The Southern Review,
- HERMAN \.\'OUK, 'America's Voice is Mark Twain's', San
- S.J. KRAUSE, 'The Art and Satire of Twain's 'Jumping Frog"
- EDGAR M. BRANCH, '"My Voice is still for Setchell": A
- LESLIE:\. FIEDLER, 'An American Abroad', Partisan Review,
- ROBERT EDSON LEE, From Hes/ to East: Studies in the Literature of
- FORREST G. ROBI:S:SOl\, 'Patterns of Consciousness in The
- HENRY NASH SMITH, 'Mark Twain as an Interpreter of the Far
- LEE CLARK MITCHELL, 'Verbally Roughing It: The West of
- TOM H. TOWERS, '"Hateful Reality": The Failure of the
- PHILIPS. FONER, 'The Gilded Age'; from Mark Twain Social
- JUSTIN D. KAPU\N, Introduction to The Gilded Age,
- PAUL SCHMIDT, 'River vs Town: Mark Twain's "Old Times on
- DEWEYGANZEL, 'Twain, Travel Books, and Life on the
- MARILYN IANC-\STER, 'Twain's Search for Reality in Life on the
- HAMLIN L. HILL, 'The Composition and the Structure of Tom
- BERNARD DEVOTO, 'The Phantasy of Boyhood: Tom Sawyer';
- TOM H. TOWERS, '"I Never Thought We Might Want to Come
- CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A
- FRANKLIN R. ROGERS, 'The Craft of the Novel'; from Mark
- ROBERT REGAN, 'Dreams and Glory'; from Unpromising Heroes:
- LOUIS]. BL'DD, 'The Year of Jubilee'; from Our Mark Twain:
- LESLIE A. FIEDLER, 'Come Back to the RaftAg'in, Huck
- LIONEL TRILLING, Introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry
- LEO MARX, 'Mr Eliot, Mr Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn', The
- JAMES M. cox, 'Remarks on the Sad Initiation of Huckleberry
- WILLIAM \'AN O'CONNOR, 'Why Huckleberry Finn is not the
- WALTER BLAIR, 'When Was Huckleberry Finn Written?',
- LESLIE FIEDLER, 'Accommodation and Transcendence'; from
- A. E. DYSON, 'Huckleberry Finn and the Whole Truth', Critical
- CHADV.1CKHANSEN, 'The Character of Jim and the Ending of
- HAROLD BEA\'ER, 'Run, Nigger, Run: Adventures of HucklebenJ
- MILLICE:\'T BELL, 'HucklebenJFinn:journey Without End',
- JOHN H. WAUACE, 'Huckl,eberry Finn is Offensive', Washingt,on
- DAVID L. SMITH, 'Huck,Jim, and American Racial Discourse',
- ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and
- J. STANLEY MATTSON, 'Mark Twain on War and Peace: The
- HOWARD G. BAETZHOLD, 'The Course of Composition of A
- JUDITH FETTERLEY, 'Yankee Showman and Reformer: The
- RICHARD s. PRESSMAN, 'A Connecticut Yankee in Merlin's
- LESLIE FIEDLER, 'As Free as Any Cretur .. .', The New Republic,
- F. R. LEAVIS, Introduction to Zodiac Press Edition, (London,
- STANLEYBRODWIN, 'Blackness and the Adamic Myth in Mark
- MYRAJEHLEN, 'The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in
- ALBERT E. STONE,Jr, 'Mark Twain's Joan of Arc: The Child as
- CHRISTINA ZWARG, 'Woman as Force in Twain's Joan of Arc:
- MAX'v\'ELLGEISMAR, 'Failure and Triumph'; in Mark Twain: An
- St:SAN K. HARRIS,' "Hadleyburg": Mark Twain's Dual Attack on
- SHERWOOD CUMMINGS, 'What is Man?: The Scientific
- STANLEYBRODWIN, 'Mark Twain's Masks of Satan: The Final
- \\lLLIAl\l LYO:-- PHELPS, ''.\fark Twain', Xorth A111e1ican Review,
- STUARTP. SHERMAN, 'Mark Twain', Nation, XC, May 1910,
- ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, 'The International Fame of Mark
- VAN \WCK BROOKS, The Ordeal of Mark Twain, (New York, 1920;
- BERNARD DEVOTO, Mark Twain's America, (Boston, 1932)
- CARL VANDOREN, 'The Fruits of the Frontier', Nation, CXI,
- VERNONL. PARRINGTON, 'The Backwash of the Frontier'; from
- GRANVILLE HICKS, 'A Banjo on My Knee'; from The Great
- ROBERT EDSON LEE, 'From West to East: Mark Twain'; from
- STEPHEN FENDER, ''The Prodigal in a Far Country Chawing of
- CONSTANCE ROURKE, from Native American Humor, (New York,
- JOHN c. GERBER, 'Mark Twain's Use of the Comic Pose',
- HENRY NASH SMITH, 'Two Ways of Viewing the World'; from
- D. E. S. MAXWELL, 'Twain as Satirist'; from American.Fiction: The
- JAMES M. COX, Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor; (Princeton, New
- ARLIN TURNER, 'Mark Twain and the South: An Affair of Love
- ARTHUR G. PETTIT, 'Mark Twain's Attitude Towards the Negro
- ARTHUR G. PETTIT, 'Mark Twain and the Negro',]ournal of
- ARTHCR G. PETTIT, 'From Stage Nigger to Mulatto Superman:
- HELEN L. HARRIS, 'Mark Twain's Response to the Native
- ALEXA1..\;DER E.JOKES, 'Mark Twain and Sexuality', PMlA,
- DA\1D R. SE\\'ELL, '"A Lot of Rules": Mark Twain and Grammar'; from ivlark Twain's Languages: Discourse, Dialogue and Linguistir Variet); (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1987),
- GL.illYS CARMEi\: BELL\MY, 'The Four "Bases" of Mark Twain's
- RICHARD CHASE, 'Mark Twain and the :\Tove!'; from The
- DWIGHT MACDONALD, 'Mark Twain: An Lnsentimental
- 1-l.\ ILI'.':HILL, ,\lark Twain: Cod'.,Fool, (:--;ewYork, 1973),
- Al.FRED KAZIN, 'Creature of Circumstances: Mark Twain';
- HAMLIN HILL, '½'ho Killed Mark Twain?', American Literary
Tribune, 26 Nm·. 1943
CXIII, 2Aug. 1941, p.113
Stjoan, (New York, London, 1924), pp.xxv-xli
Essay in Eronomir Interpretation, (Pasadena, 1924), pp. 326-33
American Review, CXCI,June 1910, pp. 830-1
Essays a/Four Decades, (Chicago, 1968), pp. 577-92
American Review, CXCI,June 1910, pp. 828-30
Elizabeth Nowell (ed.), Selected Letters of Thomas Wolfe,
(London, 1958),pp.283-6
VIII, Summer, 1972, pp. 459-92
Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 1956, p. 20
VOLUME III:
Critical Essays
'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' (1867)
Story', American Quarterl); XVI, Winter, 1964, pp. 562-76.
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)
XXXIII, \'\'inter, 1966, pp. 77-91
the A.me1iran West, (Urbana and London, 1966), pp. 98-9
Innocents A.broad', A.11mira n Literature, L\1II, March 1986,
pp. 46-63
Roughing It (1872)
West: The Structure of Roughing It'; in Walker D. Wyman and Clifton B. Kroebes (eds), The Frontier in Perspective, (Madison, 1957), pp. 206-27
Words', Nineteenth Century Literature, XLIV, June 1989, pp.67-92
Territory in Roughing It', Western American Literature, IX, May 1974,pp.3-15
The Gilded Age (1873)
Critic, (New York, 1958), pp. 110-34
(Washington Paperback Edition, Seattle and London, 1968)
'Old Times on the Mississippi' (1875)
Life on the Mississippi (1883)
the Mississippi"', Nineteenth Century Fiction, XV,June 1960, pp.95-111
Mississippi', American Literature, XXXIV, March 1962, pp.40-55
MississipjJi, The Midwest Quarterly, XXXIII, Winter, 1992,
pp. 210-21
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Sawyer', American Literature, XXXIl,Jan. 1961, pp. 379-92
from Mark Twain at Work, (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), pp. 3-24
Back": Strategies of Transcendence in Tom Sawyer', Modern Fiction Studies, XXI, Winter, 1975, pp. 509-20
Nightmare Vision of American Boyhood', The Massachusetts Review, XXI, Winter, 1980, pp. 637-52
The Prince and the Pauper (1881-2)
Twain's Burlesque Patterns, (Dallas, 1960), pp. 113-27
Mark Twain and His Characters, (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966), pp. 143-54
The Making of His Public Personality, (Philadelphia, 1983),
pp. 86-7
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5)
Honey!', Partisan Review, XV, June 1948, pp. 269-76
Finn, (Rinehart Editions, New York, 1948)
American Scholar, XXII, (Autumn, 1953), pp. 423-40
Finn', Swanee Review, LXII,July-Sept. 1954, pp. 389-405
Great American Novel', College English, XVII, Oct. 1955,
pp. 6-10
American Literature, XXX, March 1958, pp.1-25
Love and Death in the American Novel, (New York, 1960), pp.567-74
Quarter!); III, Spring, 1961, pp. 29-40
Hucklebe,-ry Finn', The Massachusetts Review, V, Autumn, 1963,
pp. 45-66
Finn as a FugitiYe SlaYe Narratiye' ,Journal of American Studies,
\111, Dec. 1974, pp. 339-61
Virginia Quarter(y Review, L\111, Spring, 1982, pp. 253-67
Post, 11 April 1982
Mark Twain journal, XXII, Fall, 1984, pp. 4-12
Afro-American Literature', Mark Twainjournal, XXII, Fall, 1984,pp.47-52
'A Private History of a Campaign that Failed' (1885)
Missouri Rebel and 'The Campaign that Failed'", American Quarterly, XX, Winter, 1968, pp. 783-94
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
Connecticut Yankee: A Reinterpretation', American Literature,
XXXIII, May 1961, pp. 195-214
Character of Mark Twain's Hank Morgan', Texas Studies in Language and Literature, XIV, Winter, 1973, pp. 667-79
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)
CXXXIII, 15 Aug. 1955, pp. 17-18; 22 Aug. 1955, pp. 16-18.
1955)
Twain's Pudd 'nhead Wilson', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, XV, Spring, 1973, pp. 167-76
Pudd 'nhead Wilson', American Literary History, II, Spring, 1990,
pp. 39-55
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
Goddess', American Literature, XXXI, March 1959, pp.1-20
The Unwordable Fascination', Criticism, Winter, 1985, pp.57-72
Following the Equator, or More Tramps Abroad (1897)
American Prophet, (Boston, 1970), pp. 165-87
'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg' (1899)
Banal Theology and Banal Literature', American Literary Realism; 1870-1910, XVI, Autumn, 1983, pp. 240-52
What is Man? (1906)
Sources'; in Sydney]. Krause (ed.), Essays on Determinism in American Literature (Kent State University Press, 1964),
pp. 108-16
The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
Phase', American Literature, XLV, May 1973, pp. 206-27
VOLUME IV:
Twentieth-century Overview
The First Decade
CLXXX\',July 1907. pp. 540-8
pp.477-80
Twain', North American Review, CXCII, Dec. 1910, pp. 805-15
The Brooks-DeVoto Controversy
revised, 1933)
The Frontier and the West
Aug. 1920, p. 189
The Begi,nnings of Critical Realism, (New York, 1930),
pp. 86-101
Tradition, (New York, 1933), pp. 39-49
.From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West,
(Urbana and London, 1966), pp. 82-6
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
1931), pp. 211-20
PMLA, LXXVII,June 1962, pp. 297-304
Mark Twain: the Development of a Writer, (Cambridge, Mass., 1962),pp.1-11,20-1
InteUectual Background, (London, 1963), pp. 192-235
Jerse 1966),pp.18-24,60-7, 75,80-1, 103-4, 195-7
The South, Slavery and Race
and Anger', The Southern Review, IV, April 1968, pp. 493-519
in the West, 1861-67', The Western Historical Quarterly, 1,Jan. 1970,pp.51-62
Negro Histor); LVI, April 1971, pp. 88-96
The End of Nigger Jim and the Rise of Jasper'; from Mark Twain and the South, (Lexington, 1974), pp.158-73, 210-12
American', American Literature, XLVI,Jan. 1975, pp. 495-505
Mark Twain and Sexuality
LXXI, Sept. 1956, pp. 595-616
Mark Twain and Language
pp. 15-36
Towards Conclusions
Mind'; from ivlark Twain as a Litrrary Artist, (Norman, Oklahoma, 1950), pp. 55-64
A.merimn Novel and Its Tradition, (New York, 1957), pp. 139-56
Journey', The New forlw; XXX\1, 9 April 1960, pp. 160-96; reprinted in Against the Amerimn Grain, (:--;ew York, 1962), pp.80-122
pp. xxv-xnii, 42-3, 77, 84-5, 89-90. 136-7, 269-74
from An American Procession, (New York, 1984), pp. 181-210
Realism, 1870-1910, VII, Spring, 1974, pp. 119-24
Biography
Stuart Hutchinson teaches at the University of Kent.
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