Dear Chuck,
Good luck with your opus. Funny, I just dug out a piece this morning related to "The Gilded Age." Maybe it will trigger your memory. 
Joe McK
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    On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:49 AM, Charles Robinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 

 Hi Everyone,

My name is Chuck Robinson, a PhD candidate at the University of Memphis 
who is slogging through his first dissertation chapter.

I'm trying to track down a citation for an article I read months ago and 
neglected to archive, an amateur mistake. It deals at length with 
chapter 36 of /The Gilded Age, /in which Laura Hawkins goes in to a 
bookshop. The article I have in mind was an extended meditation on this 
chapter as a kind of wink or literary handshake extended from Twain 
toward Howells.

Please help!

- Chuck