Apparently a site called Project Muse has my article, "Carlyle, Clemens, and
Dickens: Mark Twain's Francophobia, the French Revolution, and Determinism"
published in Studies in American Fiction Volume 20, Number 2, Autumn 1992.

I don't have a copy anymore and can't figure out how to download a PDF
version from Project Muse.  If nothing else, the bibliography might be
helpful-I don't recall a single sentence in the piece-but assume my focus
was A Tale of Two Cities, not Pickwick.



https://muse.jhu.edu/article/440167

Dr. Wesley Britton
Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles
www.drwesleybritton.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hal Bush
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:34 AM
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Subject: Re: Mark Twain and The Pickwick Papers?

Hi, I'd look up the particular book in Alan Gribben's MT's Library, then
check out Howard Baetzhold's study, MT and John Bull.

As I recall there are also some older essays about the 2 that one could
track down easily on the MLA Bib.

-hb

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> "Does anyone know how well Twain had read Dickens, especially The = 
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> Further, if he did so, does he discuss it anywhere?  It's got some = 
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>
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>
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> John
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