Forrest G. Robinson

Forrest Glen Robinson
Born1940 (age 83–84)
NationalityAmerican
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

Forrest Glen Robinson (born 1940) is an American literary historian. He is a professor of literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an author of books and articles on American literature especially of the American West and Mark Twain.[1] He's the author of The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain.[2]

Career

In 1972, Robinson was a Guggenheim Fellow.[3]

Work

His work on "bad faith" in Mark Twain's writing was criticized for its basis in sociology, Marxist thought, and deconstruction "aimed at unmasking the deceptions that authors".. "practice on a public."[4]

Bibliography

  • An Apology for Poetry (as editor). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1970). Incl. introduction, notes.
  • The Shape of Things Known: Sidney's Apology in its Philosophical Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1972).
  • Wallace Stegner, with Margaret G. Robinson. Boston: Twayne Publishers (1977). ISBN 0805771824, 978-0805771824.
  • In Bad Faith: Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1986). ISBN 978-0674445277.
  • Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1992). ISBN 0674539281.
  • Having it Both Ways: Self-subversion in Western Popular Classics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (1993). ISBN 0826314538.
  • The New Western History: The Territory Ahead. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1998).
  • The Author-Cat: Clemens Life in Fiction. New York: Fordham University Press (2007).[5]
  • "Tom Exploits St. Petersburg's Hypocrisy." In: Readings on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Greenhaven Press. pp. 77-85.

References

  1. ^ "Forrest Robinson, UC Santa Cruz | Distinguished Professor of Humanities". forrestrobinson.sites.ucsc.edu.
  2. ^ Crow, Charles L. (1997). "The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain ed. by Forrest G. Robinson, and: Mark Twain A to Z by R. Kent Rasmussen (review)". Western American Literature. 31 (4): 384–388. doi:10.1353/wal.1997.0092. ISSN 1948-7142. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Forrest G. Robinson". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  4. ^ Eble, Kenneth E. (November 20, 1987). "In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America by Forrest G. Robinson (review)". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 41 (4): 265–266. doi:10.2307/1347305. JSTOR 1347305. S2CID 201784714 – via Project MUSE.
  5. ^ Bush, Harold K. (2008). Review of The Author-Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction, by Forrest G. Robinson. New England Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 714–716. doi:10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.714. JSTOR 20474685. S2CID 144532123.


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