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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation

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• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
• Criticism and interpretation

• Mark Twain as Critic (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sydney J. Krause (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Joe B. Fulton (PDF files at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Mark Twain's Letters, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain Journal (partial serial archives)
• Mark Twain Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Teacher's Guide (a Big Read guide; Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, ca. 2008), by Michael Palma (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)
• How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (In German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints (English content only; 1921), ed. by F. Kingsbury and Godfrey E. Phillips (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Shah Latif and His Message, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at gmsyed.org)

• The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)

• De Codicibus Aeschineis (dissertation in Latin; Berlin: Actien-Gesellschaft, 1882), by Johannes Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at wayne.edu)

• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Wen Jin (PDF at Ohio STate)

• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2015), ed. by Vanja Malloy (illustrated HTML with commentary at Amherst)

• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in English and French; London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Adam Szymanski, contrib. by Erin Manning (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Arnold's Poetic Landscapes (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Roper (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1951), by Frederic E. Faverty (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Christine Bolus-Reichert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (1952), by E. D. H. Johnson (HTML at Victorian Web)

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