Thanks for the reply,

Actually, I have that essay, and after spending hours scouring my existing sources, finding some new ones, and returning to some old sources that I had discounted ("Of course it's not in there..."), I found the passage I was thinking of in a monograph, Cummings, _Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of the Mind_, in a chapter called "Twain, Taine, and Howells."

Thanks for the assist, though!

- Chuck

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Subject: Re: Gilded Age Citation

Is this it?


*http://www.academia.edu/19792243/Emotional_Insanity_Cynical_Reason_and_the_Gilded_Age
<http://www.academia.edu/19792243/Emotional_Insanity_Cynical_Reason_and_the_Gilded_Age>*

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:38 PM, 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
>