Table of Contents

Preface
Annotations
Index

About the Author

J.C.B. KINCH is Assistant Professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Professor Kinch is the recipient of a Fulbright Lecture Grant to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Reviews

"Dr. Kinch has done a remarkably thorough job of compiling and annotating German, Austrian, and Swiss criticism of Mark Twain. These informative annotations offer more than simple precis of critical responses; taken as a whole, these carefully constructed brief commentaries add up to a critical history of Twain's German reputation. Changes in literary taste and cultural values are clearly revealed through the preoccupations of more than one hundred years of scholarship. Kinch has done a valuable service to American critics and scholars by making accessible to readers not fluent in German this rich bibliographical history of Twain scholarship in his second-most-favorite country."-William E. Grant Director, American Culture Studies Program and Professor of English and American Studies, Bowling Green State University

"This superb bibliography unlocks a wealth of early commentary and more recent scholarship relatively inaccessible to English-speaking readers. The generous annotations convey the spirit and essential points of hundreds of books and articles on Twain, making this an important acquisition for every college and university reference collection."-Thomas A. Tenney Editor, Mark Twain Journal