...John Bird 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, but that provides a treasure trove...

...John Bird 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 study of Twain s conflicted views...

...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 © 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...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2005 5 Mark Twain Alan Gribben Another fecund year rewards those privileged to specialize in Mark Twain studies. Foremost is the justifiable boast of the Mark Twain Project to have produced ‘‘a new critical edition’’ of Twain’s masterpiece...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2006 5  Mark Twain Alan Gribben After the momentous publishing events of 2003, especially the release of the Mark Twain Project’s fullest edition of Adventures of Huckle- berry Finn and the incredibly inclusive Buffalo and Erie County...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2008 5  Mark Twain Alan Gribben Hundreds of Mark Twain’s highly revealing interviews are at last col- lected and reprinted in their entirety by Gary Scharnhorst, a milestone event. Under John Bird’s editorship and sponsored by the Mark Twain...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2007 5  Mark Twain Alan Gribben Ron Powers’s writings on Mark Twain culminate in a major trade-press biography. Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd bring out an expansive “companion” volume organized around seven thematic rubrics...

...Alan Gribben © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 5 Mark Twain Alan Gribben i Editions The fifth volume of letters in the Mark Twain Papers series makes its appearance in a handsome, durable hardback edition with 309 letters presented in 543 pages of text and accompanied by nearly 400 pages...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2002 5 Mark Twain Alan Gribben A new generation of scholars is following up on earlier discoveries, filling out the details and presenting the implications of materials and events that have surfaced in recent decades. Among the highlights...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2003 5 Mark Twain Alan Gribben A short story that Mark Twain set aside Žnally sees print, his collected editions receive analysis, Mark Twain: Social Philosopher returns to print, the illustrations from four of Twain’s books go under...

...Alan Gribben 5 Mark Twain Alan Gribben Another volume of Mark Twain’s correspondence—this one reproducing letters from the early period of his national recognition—joins five pre- vious installments issued by the Mark Twain Project and the University of California Press. A maverick...

...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...

...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...

...Alan Gribben Duke University Press 2010 5  Mark Twain Alan Gribben For whatever reason, scholars rested on their oars and caught their breath about one subject, adding little to the many recent studies of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Nor is there any new full...

...Michael J. Kiskis Duke University Press 2011 5  Mark Twain Michael J. Kiskis Twain continues to be a strong and vital presence in American literary studies. This year scholarly commentary has appeared on a wide variety of topics, some of which reprises material that has been...

...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...

...Alan Gribben © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 5  Mark Twain Alan Gribben I have produced the Mark Twain essay for American Literary Scholar- ship fifteen times now, and I have seldom seen such productivity and significance as 2010 yielded. Virtually all periods and genres...