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 ________________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Jennifer Zinck <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 >