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= > f=3Dsr_1_1?ie=3DUTF8&qid=3D1471631434&sr=3D8-1& > keywords=3Dmark+twain+and+y= > outh> > > 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 > -- Prof. Harold K. Bush Professor of English 3800 Lindell Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>