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... sympathy with the diffi- culty of Queeney’s position to be unwilling to condemn her. A. T. HAZEN Yale University Mark Twain in Eruption. Edited and with an Introduction by BERNARDDE VOTO. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940. Pp. xxviii...

...Rodney O. Rogers TWAIN, TAINE, AND LECKY THE GENESIS OF A PASSAGE IN A CONNECTICUT YANKEE By RODNEY0. ROGERS Mark Twain was profoundly responsive to certain nineteenth- century historians...

... Twain in the Holy Land. By FRANKLINWALKER. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1974. xii + 234 pp. $9.95. For most Americans of the nineteenth century as for most Englishmen, the European Grand Tour normally did not extend beyond Italy to the eastern...

....” ALLENR. BENHAM University of Washington Mark Twain in Germany. By EDGARH. HEMMINGHAUS.New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. Pp. 170. The Columbia University Press has added another unit to its much appreciated series of studies on the fate of English-writing authors...

... Twain as Critic. By SYDNEYJ. KRAUSE.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. xi + 308 pp. $7.50; 60s. In Mark Twain as Critic, Sydney Krause explores three aspects of Mark Twain’s comments upon literature (and legitimate theater and art): “Twain’s Early Criticism: The Critic...

... of those great tortured personalities, like Tolstoy and Mark Twain, whose souls were the place where the most violent contradictions of the century were fought out perpetually, but to no decision. This is the Tennyson who emerges, perhaps unintentionally, from the pages of this biography...

...Hamlin Hill Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 TWO TWAIN “HERESIES”1 By HAMLINHILL In the preface to Mark Twain, Jackleg Novelist, Robert A. Wiggins warns the reader, as he was warned by a friend, that his book...

...JAMES E. CARON Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 THE CQMK BZLDUNGSROMAN OF MARK TWAIN By JAMES E. CARON When Samuel Clemens finished his sketches on steamboat pilot- ing...

...Guy A. Cardwell Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 MARK TWAIN’S “ROW’ WITH GEORGE CABLE By GUYA. CARDWELL The lecture tour which Mark Twain made in company with George W. Cable beginning on November 4, 1884...

...Albert R. Kitzhaber © 1954 University of Washington 1954 MARK TWAIN’S USE OF THE POMEROY CASE IN THE GILDED AGE By ALBERTR. KITZHABER The Gilded Age, which Mark Twain wrote in 1873 in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, is perhaps...

...Edgar H. Hemminghaus Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 MARK TWAIN’S GERMAN PROVENIENCE By EDGARH. HEMMINGHAUS Within recent years the assumption that Mark Twain was “un- literary” has been subjected to more or less exacting scrutiny. Critics...

...E. H. Eby Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 MARK TWAIN’S TESTAMENT By E. H. EBY The Mysterious Stranger, although unfinished and posthumously published, is one of Mark Twain’s great works. Nevertheless, few have examined...

...?’ “FREE AND EASY”? SPONTANEITY AND THE QUEST FOR MATURITY IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN2 By R. J. FERTEL At the heart of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn con- tradictory assessments of spontaneity’s...

...), particularly pp. 56-61. 253 254 “?he End. Yours Truly, Huck Finn” rest.” These last four words comprise a crux which, so far as I know, no commentator has yet recognized. I suggest that here, at the end, Mark Twain introduces his own point of view, which...

... Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) Hank Mor- gan, obviously speaking for Mark Twain, claims that no man can clear his eyes of the blindness imposed by training. Men can respond only as they have been taught to respond; no one can see with unprejudiced eyes or act according...

... on followed and shored up one another’s misinterpretations in order to idolize Twain’s novel. In this way they generated a chauvinist misreading of Huck’s moral transformation that brooked no (black) dissent, tacitly alleging that their method was one of “the functions of criticism in our time.” Arac...

..., especially “Tabellen” 5-16, pp. 165-172). It does not appear that the war functioned as a turn- ing point in the appreciation of Mark Twain in Germany. On the other hand it was the death of Mark Twain that gave the signal in America for total appreciations. These in turn stimulated the pro...

... to countervailing forces. The heavy attack on Rus- kin’s views is represented by the writing of James Eliot Cabot, the early functional doctrines of Leopold Eidlitz, and the realistic novels of James, Twain, and Howells. It is followed, somewhat anticlimactically, by the defense of Ruskin’s views...

... Frightening the Squatter” see F. J. Meine, Tall Tales of the Southwest (New York, 1930) ; Walter Blair, Native American Humor (New York, 1937) ; American Literature (November, 1931) ; Bernard DeVoto, Mark Twain’s America, IV (Boston, 1932) ; and F. L. Pattee, Mark Twain (New York, 1933...

... with the diffi- culty of Queeney’s position to be unwilling to condemn her. A. T. HAZEN Yale University Mark Twain in Eruption. Edited and with an Introduction by BERNARDDE VOTO. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940. Pp. xxviii + 402. $3.75...