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

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:40 PM, John R. Pascal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Good Evening Everyone,
>
> One of my former thesis readers is of course a college professor at =
> Montclair State University in New Jersey.
>
> He has asked me to submit this question to all of you:
>
> "Does anyone know how well Twain had read Dickens, especially The =
> Pickwick Papers?  Can anyone recommend good scholarship on the topic?
> Further, if he did so, does he discuss it anywhere?  It's got some =
> remarkable overlap with Huck Finn and I'm including both books in a =
> treatment of the picaresque novel=20
> I'm writing.=E2=80=9D
>
> Whatever insights you can give, I will gratefully pass them onto my =
> professor who will also be most appreciative of your thoughts.
>
> Thank you and enjoy the waning days of August!
> John
>
> John R. Pascal, M.B.A., M.A.
> Teacher of 9th Grade English Honors, 11th Grade English, & The Writings =
> of Mark Twain
> Seton Hall Preparatory School
> Contributing Author to Mark Twain and Youth, available at Amazon and =
> Bloomsbury Academic Publishing by the links below:
>
> =
> https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Youth-Studies-Writings/
> dp/1474225381/ref=
> =3Dsr_1_1?ie=3DUTF8&qid=3D1471631434&sr=3D8-1&
> keywords=3Dmark+twain+and+yo=
> uth =
> <https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Youth-Studies-Writings/
> dp/1474225381/re=
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> keywords=3Dmark+twain+and+y=
> outh>
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> http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mark-twain-and-youth-9781474225380/ =
> <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mark-twain-and-youth-9781474225380/>
>
> Book Signing at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Livingston Mall on =
> Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 AM to 10 PM.  A portion of the proceeds from =
> the book sales along with all other products in the store go back to =
> Seton Hall Prep as well as the four Mark Twain Centers in the USA!  Come =
> and support the Prep as well as getting great insight on Mark Twain and =
> Youth!
>
>
> Review--
> =E2=80=9CThe very theme of youth is a crucial one in Twain ... the list =
> of authors who have agreed to write for this collection provides a kind =
> of who's who of the very best critics working in Twain Studies at the =
> present moment. This is a book which I would eagerly anticipate reading, =
> as would any scholar with an interest in Twain.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=95Peter =
> Messent, Emeritus Professor of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham =
> University, UK
>



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