Apparently a site called Project Muse has my article, "Carlyle, Clemens, and Dickens: Mark Twain's Francophobia, the French Revolution, and Determinism" published in Studies in American Fiction Volume 20, Number 2, Autumn 1992. I don't have a copy anymore and can't figure out how to download a PDF version from Project Muse. If nothing else, the bibliography might be helpful-I don't recall a single sentence in the piece-but assume my focus was A Tale of Two Cities, not Pickwick. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/440167 Dr. Wesley Britton Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles www.drwesleybritton.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hal Bush Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:34 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Mark Twain and The Pickwick Papers? 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>