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 Our Gelded Age | | | | | | | | | | | Our Gelded AgeBy J.F. McKenna Mark Twain remains the nation’s foremost social critic, even now tearing apart our 21st century devotion to the wrongheaded if not half-assed notion... | | | | View on clevelandbusinessrev... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | 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