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     David E. E. Sloane, ed., _Mark Twain's Humor: Critical Essays_.
          New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.  $95.00
          U.S., cloth, 633 pp., index.  ISBN 0-8153-0620-2.  Garland
          Studies in Humor (Steven H. Gale, General Editor), vol. 3.
          Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1502.

Contents:

     General Editor's Note
     Acknowledgments
     Chronology
     Introduction (by David E. E. Sloane)

     The Early Writings of Mark Twain: The Growth of the Comedian

          Edgar M. Branch, "'My Voice is Still for Setchell': A
               Background Study of 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"
          Franklin R. Rogers, "Burlesque Travel Literature and Mark
               Twain's _Roughing It_"
          Pascal Covici, Jr., "From the Old Southwest"
          Louis J. Budd, "A Curious Republican"
          David E. E. Sloane, "Toward the Novel"

     The Middle Career of Mark Twain from _Tom Sawyer_ to _Pudd'nhead
     Wilson_: The Comedian as Major Author

          "Novels of the Week: _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_,"
               _Athenaeum_
          Walter Blair, "On the Structure of _Tom Sawyer_"
          William Dean Howells, "Mark Twain"
          Rufus A. Coleman, "Trowbridge and Clemens"
          _Blackwood's Magazine_, "Musings without Method"
          George Ade, "Mark Twain and the Old Time Subscription Book"
          Will M. Clemens, "Mark Twain on the Lecture Platform"
          Durant Da Ponte, "_Life_ reviews _Huckleberry Finn_"
          Leslie A. Fiedler, "_Huckleberry Finn_: The Book We Love to
               Hate"
          Henry Nash Smith, "A Sound Heart and a Deformed Conscience"
          Edward F. Foster, "A _Connecticut Yankee_ Anticipated: Max
               Adeler's _Fortunate Island_"
          James M. Cox, "Yankee Slang"
          Alan Gribben, "'I Kind of Love Small Game': Mark Twain's
               Library of Literary Hogwash"
          Clyde Grimm, "_The American Claimant_: Reclamation of a Farce"
          Henry Watterson, "Mark Twain--An Intimate Memory"
          _The Idler_, "The Book Hunter" [review of _Pudd'nhead Wilson_]
          Martha McCulloch Williams, "In Re 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'"
          Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "'The Tales He Couldn't Tell': Mark
               Twain, Race and Culture at the Century's End: A Social
               Context for _Pudd'nhead Wilson_"

     The Later Career of Mark Twain: The Comedian as a Cultural
     Representative

          William Dean Howells, "Mark Twain: An Inquiry"
          Archibald Henderson, "The International Fame of Mark Twain"
          Edith Wyatt, "An Inspired Critic"
          _The Ladies' Home Journal_, "The Anecdotal Side of Mark Twain"
          A. C. Ward, "3.--Mark Twain"
          _The Academy_, review of _Tom Sawyer Abroad_
          Susan K. Harris, "'Hadleyburg': Mark Twain's Dual Attack on
               Banal Theology and Banal Literature"
          John Kendrick Bangs and Mark Twain, "Is the Philippine Policy
               of the Administration Just?"
          Susanne Weil, "Reconstructing the 'Imagination Mill': The
               Mystery of Mark Twain's Late Works"
          Michael J. Kiskis, "Coming Back to Humor: The Comic Voice in
               Mark Twain's Autobiography"
          Laura E. Skandera-Trombley, "'The Mysterious Stranger':
               Absence of the Female in Mark Twain's Biography"

     Selected Bibliography
     Index

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