... A. Tenney. American Literary Realism devotes a special issue to Mark Twain, with memorials in honor of Louis J. Budd and Michael Kiskis. With the passing of Tom Tenney, Alan Gribben takes up the editorship of the Mark Twain Journal. Mark Twain studies are indeed robust, as this survey attests. i...

... 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...

... for the sake of propriety; memories of his daughters’ young days; his account of the 1907 honorary doctorate from Oxford University; his extended dia- tribes against President Theodore Roosevelt (“the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century; always showing off; always hunting...

... and Medicine (see AmLS 2003, pp. 95 96). George Hendrick, The Blankenships in Mark Twain s Fiction: Some Speculations (MTJ 56, i: 124 35) gathers material about the Blanken- ship family, especially Tom Blankenship, the principal model for Huck- leberry Finn. In Alas; Poor Mark The Masonic Response to Mark...

... and essay that does appear seems capable of making an impact. A new classroom text of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer offers unique advantages. A contempla- tive biographical monograph, for example, sifts through Mark Twain’s legacy of vivid images. Several publications explore Twain’s mental...

.... 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...

... Mixture claims that the fiction of racial mixing “participates discursively in issues of social reform and national identity in the Americas.” Con- trasting Child’s Hobomok and Romance of the Republic, Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to little-known Latin American...

... on women writers. One book notes the influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe s character Uncle Tom on subsequent black cul- ture, and a collection of essays traces the transnational history of Uncle Tom s Cabin. Two articles provide commentary on heterosexuality and secularism, respectively, in Stowe s novels...

... feature of the genre is what Howe means by the double-cross of his subtitle.) Howe draws widely on various sources including Bakhtin, Foucault, and Freud as well as the regular commentators on Twain in fashioning his critical approaches to Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

... makes for a very manageable intro- duction to contemporary readings and to the conflicting approaches from an international gathering of scholars. Twain’s novels received considerable attention. In “Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher in the Cave: An Anti-Captivity Narrative” (MTA 7: 118– 26) Robert...

... Warner’s Model- ing of Reading in The Wide, Wide World ’’ (Reader 46: 7–31) argues that Ellen’s education as a reader is fully as important as her conduct lessons in leading her toward salvation. Like The Wide, Wide World Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin continues its progress toward (re)canonization...

... for sentimental poetics and antebellum slavery debates Uncle Tom’s Cabin remains the most hotly discussed novel of the era, its contemporary relevance signaled by the publication of an MLA volume of essays on teaching that text. Work on Stowe approaches in volume new scholarship on Poe, an indica- tion...

... Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Reuniting the two novels is not controversial, but Gribben’s decision to substitute the 200-plus occur- rences of the word nigger with slave certainly does. Gribben’s motive for this editorial move is to keep the book from being banned, especially from...

..., ‘‘American literature anthologies . . . and Mark Twain studies would evolve together, influencing each other in innumer- able ways Csicsila’s findings are everywhere absorbing and sometimes startling. No excerpts from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer have ever appeared in a major anthology. A Connecticut...

... Twain’s piloting days formed a part. The 13-room house where Clemens and Olivia first resided in Buffalo, New York, seldom gets mentioned, mainly because it was destroyed in 1963, but Tom Reigstad in “The House of Twain: 472 Delaware” Heritage( 7, ii [2004]: 18–29) even tracks the sad fate...

... choices for assignment. Tom Quirk’s new edition of the venerable Portable Mark Twain (Pen- guin) opens, like its popular predecessor edited by Bernard DeVoto in 1946, with “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Also, as with DeVoto’s volume, Quirk includes the first American edition...

..., Eliot, and the Reform Aesthetic” (pp. 111–30), Clíona Ó Gallchoir’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Irish National Tale” (pp. 24–45), and Monika Elbert’s “Nature, Magic, and History in Stowe and Scott” (pp. 46–64)—study the devel- opment of Stowe’s feminist politics through her relationships...

... with moral and religious utility.” Tract-tale authors such as Helen Cross Knight and Sarah Maria Fry served as inspiration for some of the period’s best-selling fiction, including Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter. Cari M...

... ( ), 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...

... in the usually infallible Mark Twain A–Z (see AmLS 1995, p. 94). Then in a substantive afterword Blount humorously likens the potential Atlantic contributors (Lowell, Holmes, Aldrich, Howells, Harte, T rowbridge, Warner, James) to Twain’s fantasy of an adult version of Tom Sawyer’s gang, sketches out...