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...John Matteson Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Melville John Matteson is year marked the bicentennial of the birth of Herman Melville, and the large number of critical publications responding to the occasion comes as no surprise. is summary begins with a note on a special section...

...John Samson 3 Melville John Samson The year saw relatively little published on Melville s early works, his short fiction, and his late works and poetry. Typee, Moby-Dick, and Pierre were the subjects of fine essays and book chapters, but much of the best scholarship dealt with topics that range...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2002 3 Melville John Samson It was an unbalanced year for Melville studies, with the early work and the late writings receiving virtually no critical attention and Moby-Dick the subject of a whale-sized body of criticism, including five very...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2003 3 Melville John Samson Though the early works, the short stories, and The ConŽdence-Man were largely ignored by critics this year, Moby-Dick continued to receive its usual large body of criticism, and Pierre, ‘‘ Bartleby , the Scrivener...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2004 3 Melville John Samson This year sees the publication of several book-length projects devoted to Melville: biography, criticism, and a collection of new essays on Billy Budd. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (4, i–ii...

...John Samson © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 3 Melville John Samson In an unusual year for Melville studies, Moby-Dick and Pierre received relatively little critical treatment, while Typee, the short stories—par- ticularly ‘‘Bartleby, the Scrivenerand the poetry were...

...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...

...John Bird © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 5  Mark Twain John Bird This year sees fewer books about Mark Twain but more articles on a wide variety of topics, including a focus on many lesser-known works that do not often receive critical attention. A strong current...

...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...

...John Bird © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 5  Mark Twain John Bird The year’s biggest news is the completion of Autobiography of Mark Twain, its third volume giving us Twain’s full autobiography for the first time, a work that will confound many, especially general readers...

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...John Bird © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118552 © 2020 by Duke University Press 5 Mark Twain John Bird The year is a busy one in Mark Twain studies, highlighted by a new and, when complete, comprehensive biography, an excellent...

...Kim Vanderlaan; John N. Swift Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Wharton and Cather Kim Vanderlaan and John N. Swift As readers of the scholarship on Edith Wharton and Willa Cather published in , we have been struck by its continuing maturation and the encouragement of and reliance...

...John Bird Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Mark Twain John Bird e year sees publication of the second volume of a massive new biog- raphy of Mark Twain, two special issues of journals, the rst volume of an important updated reference work on Twain s reading, a book...

...John Bird [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 5 Mark Twain John Bird Although this year brings few book-length studies of Mark Twain, a pause in what has been a rich batch of recent offerings from university presses, that lack is more than made up...

...Kim Vanderlaan; John Swift [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 7 Wharton and Cather Kim Vanderlaan and John Swift The impressive volume of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather scholarship this year signals that both novelists have achieved...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2005 3 Melville John Samson Moby-Dick continues to be receive the most scrutiny, with this year’s publications including two books and a special issue of Leviathan. ‘‘Bar- tleby, the Scrivener’’ and Billy Budd, Sailor are also the focus...

...John Bird © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 5  Mark Twain John Bird Two very different but excellent editions highlight the year. Henry Wonham edits a special issue of American Literary Realism, “Mark Twain and Economy”; Chad Rohman takes over the editorship of The Mark...

... Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Subject Index Abani, Chris, Alexie, Sherman, Abbey, Edward, , , Alger, Horatio, , Abrams, J. J., Allan, John, Acconci, Vito, Allen, Candace, Acker, Kathy, Allen, Ethan, Acosta Morales, Rafael, Allen, Richard, Adams, Alice, Almodóvar, Pedro, Adams...