...Alan Gribben © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 5 Mark Twain Alan Gribben Virtually every major period of Mark Twain’s life and career once again receives treatment this year. The thorniest issue remains the teachability of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

...John Bird © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 5  Mark Twain John Bird 2012 brings special journal issues and tributes to departed Mark Twain scholars, a return of critical attention to Huckleberry Finn after a one- year hiatus, and a spate of articles spanning Twain’s career...

... racial animus in the short piece The Noble Red Man (1870), which she calls without question Twain s harshest depic- tion of Indians. She shows how Twain s views softened somewhat in the 1880s, highlighted by his unfinished novel Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians. Later chapters deal...

... collection of revisionist essays raises ques- tions about topics long taken for granted. Several other articles o√er familiar arguments, but with fresh implications and phrasing, about the faults of Tom Sawyer as a character and the failings of Twain’s conclusion for Adventures of Huckleberry...

... are an astute full-length study of Huckleberry Finn and fresh evaluations of the reading Twain undertook as he was writing A Connecticut Yankee. A perceptive article considers the manner in which Mark Twain has been represented in college textbooks since World War I. Some arguments sound familiar...

..., and four other biographies make notable contributions. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn continues to elicit contending commentary. Several critics find fault with Ken Burns’s documentary film, and there are also attempts to see Twain’s last years as more upbeat than Hamlin Hill portrayed them. i...

...-of-fact descriptions of the philosopher’s doctrines and the dissections of the wittiest literature of Twain. The Duke’s remark in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn about his stratagem of announcing the performance of “The Royal Nonesuch” with an accompanying warning, “LADIES AND CHILDREN...

...John Bird © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 5  Mark Twain John Bird One could argue that 2010 was surely “The Year of Mark Twain”: the centennial of his death, the 175th anniversary of his birth, and the 125th anniversary of the American publication of Adventures of Huckleberry...

... a magnifying glass, two important editions of Huckleberry Finn earn augmented versions, the disagreements resume over Huckleberry Finn’s language and what his book signiŽes in American culture, a collection of essays pays tribute to Hamlin Hill’s foray against conventional scholarship, and another...

...–17), and the second Lawrence I. Berkove, written by Joseph Csicsila (MTJ 52, ii: 9–23). The year brings more articles on Twain than in recent years, spanning his career but with particular emphasis on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, especially the ending, and A Connecticut Yankee in King...

... 1881 1910. Many are only one or two lines long, but more substantial items include reaction to the publication of Huckleberry Finn and first reactions to the Villa di Quarto outside Florence. The final item is a letter telegram dated 26 January 1910, from Bermuda, in which Twain writes, I expect...

... for scholars and critics. Also notable are a huge study of Twain’s humor, a provocative book about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and two books about Mark Twain and China. Book chapters and articles span Twain’s career, with examinations of some works that are often overlooked. This year shows...

... catalogues serve up new Twain materials. Excellent articles on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn advance our understanding of that novel. Several articles probe the philosophical connections and the larger implications of selected works. Some of Twain’s lesser-studied late works receive their due...

.... A fascinating study examines Twain’s many links with the printing industry. Interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, among them an intriguing analysis of Pap Finn, continue to dominate the critical conversations, and a new, annotated classroom edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

... ( ), e Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( ), A Tramp Abroad ( ), e Prince and the Pauper ( ), Life on the Mississippi ( ), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( ), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court ( ) as well as collections and important short works such as A True Story ( ), e Facts Concerning...

... England). Loving covers what he rightly calls Twain’s annus mirabilis: the American publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; his fictionalized Civil War memoir, “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”; his publication through Webster and Company of Ulysses S. Grant’s autobiography...

..., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court, The American Claimant, and Alan Gribben 89 Pudd nhead Wilson. His reconstruction of the links between Old Times on the Mississippi and Life on the Mississippi (a book indispensable . . . for mapping...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2009 5  Mark Twain Alan Gribben Publications about Twain have slowed at least temporarily, a fact quite noticeable with regard to the smaller number of scholars taking up Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but virtually every book...

...). The relationship between The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adven- tures of Huckleberry Finn is the primary point in Andrew Levy’s “The Boy Murderers: What Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn Really Teach” (MissR 32, ii: 42–58). Levy embeds Huckleberry Finn in two cultural moments: Twain’s and our own. He...

... or pedagogical essays. i Editions Overshadowing all other developments is the release of the much- anticipated Mark Twain Project edition, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ed. Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo (Calif vetted for the Committee on Scholarly Editions by no less eminent a textual authority...