BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted

JOURNALS

_American Literary Realism: Special Issue on Mark Twain_. Guest editor,
Michael J. Kiskis. Volume 41, No. 3, Spring 2009. E-ISSN: 1940-5103. Print
ISSN: 0002-9823. $12.00 (U.S.); $15.00 (Non-U.S.). This issue contains
five essays by noted Mark Twain scholars: "The voice of Her Laughter: Mark
Twain's Tragic Feminism" by Ann M. Ryan; "The Fluid Identity of 'Petrified
Man'" by Kerry Driscoll; "'The Trouble Begins at Eight': Mark Twain, the
San Francisco Minstrels, and the Unsettling Legacy of Blackface
Minstrelsy" by Sharon D. McCoy; "Transcendental Twain: A New Reading of
'What Is Man?'" by Jennifer Gurley; and "'It Was a Pretty High Title':
Kantian Ethics in _A Connecticut Yankee_" by Jeffrey W. Miller.  Mark
Woodhouse also contributes a book review of Forrest G. Robinson's _The
Author-Cat_.

This journal is available online through Project Muse from many school
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http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_realism/toc/alr.41.3.html

Single issues are available from the University of Illinois Press. Their
contact information is available at this website:

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