Reviews of Critical Sources

Budd, Louis J. Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
          REVIEWED BY TYLER HOGAN

Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn. The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1998.
          REVIEWED BY TONY TRAN

Clinch, Jon. Finn: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2007.
          REVIEWED BY MARIE COHEN

Coulombe, Joseph L. Mark Twain and the American West. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
          REVIEWED BY BRITTANY GURGLE

Covici, Pascal, Jr. Mark Twain's Humor: The Image of a World. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1962.
          REVIEWED BY MELISSA HUDSON

Cox, James M. Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
          REVIEWED BY SARAH DICKEY

Doyno, Victor A. Writing "Huck Finn": Mark Twain's Creative Process. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
          REVIEWED BY SAM BUSH

Fatout, Paul. Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960.
          REVIEWED BY MARY GRIFFIN

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
          REVIEWED BY HUNTER SINCLAIR

Harris, Susan K. The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
          REVIEWED BY RENÉE ALBERS

Howe, Lawrence. Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
          REVIEWED BY CATHERINE NICHOLAS

Krass, Peter. Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Speculator and Entrepreneur Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
          REVIEWED BY BRIAN CAMPBELL

Lystra, Karen. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
          REVIEWED BY GREY FISHER

Petit, Arthur G. Mark Twain and the South. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1974.
          REVIEWED BY CHRIS ROBBINS

Sewell, David R. Mark Twain's Languages: Discourse, Dialogue, and Linguistic Variety. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
          REVIEWED BY BROOKE LARSON

Sloane, David E. E. Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1979.
          REVIEWED BY MARY BAROCH

Stoneley, Peter. Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
          REVIEWED BY ALICE GILLET

Willis, Resa. Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him. New York: Atheneum, 1992.
          REVIEWED BY BIZZY TYSSE

Other Secondary Sources

Arac, Jonathan. "Huckleberry Finn" as Idol and Target. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Blair, Walter. Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

Bridgman, Richard. Traveling in Mark Twain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Brooks, Van Wyck. The Ordeal of Mark Twain. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920.

Camfield, Gregg, ed. The Oxford companion to Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Cardwell, Guy A. The Man Who Was Mark Twain: Images and Ideologies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Dempsey, Terrell. Searching for Jim : Slavery in Sam Clemens's World. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.

DeVoto, Bernard. Mark Twain's America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, ed. A historical guide to Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Gillman, Susan. Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Gillman, Susan, and Forrest G. Robinson, eds. Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson": Race, Conflict and Culture. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1990.

Hill, Hamlin. Mark Twain: God's Fool. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

Hoffman, Andrew. Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel L. Clemens. New York: Morrow, 1987.

Howells, William Dean. My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms. New York: Harper, 1910.

Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Knoper, Randall K. Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Leonard, James S., Thomas A. Tenney and Thadious M. Davis, eds. Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992.

Lorch, Fred W. The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain's Lecture Tours. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1968.

Lowry, Richard S. "Littery Man": Mark Twain and Modern Authorship. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Lynn, Kenneth S. Mark Twain and Southwest Humor. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

Macnaughton, William R. Mark Twain's Last Years as a Writer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1979.

Melton, Jeffrey Alan. Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Mensh, Elaine. Black, White and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Messent, Peter B. The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Michelson, Bruce. Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life New York: Free Press, 2005.

Rich, Janet A. The Dream of Riches and the Dream of Art: The Relationship between Business and the Imagination in the Life and Major Fiction of Mark Twain. New York: Garland, 1987.

Robinson, Forrest G. In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Salomon, Roger B. Twain and the Image of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.

Skandera-Trombley, Laura. Mark Twain in the Company of Women. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Smith, Henry Nash. Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Stone, Albert E., Jr. The Innocent Eye: Childhood in Mark Twain's Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.

Ward, Geoffrey C. and Dayton Duncon. Mark Twain (based on a documentary film directed by Ken Burns). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

Wonham, Henry B. Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.



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