Pudd'nhead Wilson

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins, 1894 first edition, on Wikimedia Commons
  2. ^ a b c Podgorski, Daniel (November 17, 2015). "Nature, Nurture, Nightmare: On Mark Twain's Other Ironic Masterpiece, Pudd'nhead Wilson". The Gemsbok. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Myra Jehlen, "The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in Pudd'nhead Wilson; Literary History 2(1), Spring 1990. Quote: "The progress from a good thing to a bad as the black boy grows up to murder the town patriarch who is his uncle, and to rob, cheat, and generally despoil the whole village, as well as plunging his mother into a worse state than before, makes as much sense in history as it fails to make in the story."
  4. ^ Langston Hughes, "Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, first published as the introduction to the 1962 edition of the novel; subsequently appearing in Interracialism: Black-white Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law, ed. Werner Sollors; Oxford University Press, 2000; p. 326.
  5. ^ "For some years Wilson had been privately at work on a whimsical almanac, for his amusement—a calendar, with a little dab of ostensible philosophy, usually in ironical form, appended to each date; and the Judge thought that these quips and fancies of Wilson’s were neatly turned and cute; so he carried a handful of them around, one day, and read them to some of the chief citizens. But irony was not for those people; their mental vision was not focussed for it. They read those playful trifles in the solidest earnest, and decided without hesitancy that if there had ever been any doubt that Dave Wilson was a pudd’nhead—which there hadn’t—this revelation removed that doubt for good and all. That is just the way in this world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. After this the Judge felt tenderer than ever toward Wilson, and surer than ever that his calendar had merit" (pp. 70–71).
  6. ^ Anne P. Wigger, "The Composition of Mark Twain's 'Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins:' Chronology and Development"; Modern Philology 55(2), November 1957.
  7. ^ Thomas S. Hischak, American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations; Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2012; p. 188 .

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