Hi, All. I need to ask your help. I'm doing an inquiry into _Roughing It_--my focus is critical, not biographical. My interest was sparked by Peter Stoneley's _Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic_; Stonelely discusses _Roughing It_ as Twain's effort to create an exclusively maculine aesthetic and to lovingly depict a world without women and more or less bereft of the constraints of civilized tradition (as MT says, they "left 'the States' behind," and found "complete and satisfying happiness"). So, I'm looking at the "homosocial" impulse (not necessarily the same as "homosexual," okay?). Does anyone know of any work done on this topic since Stoneley? Does anyone have any "leads" or information they could share with me? I have the feeling there was some work done, along these lines, on Huck Finn, but I can't think of the book. If anyone has any related info, in general, or any specific stuff regarding _Roughing It_, I'd be very, very grateful. Thanks, Rivka Swenson