Forrest G. Robinson

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. He's the author of The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain.

Career

In 1972, Robinson was a Guggenheim Fellow.

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."

Bibliography

• (as editor). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1970). Incl. introduction, notes.
• '. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1972).
• , with Margaret G. Robinson. Boston: Twayne Publishers (1977). .
• . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1986). .
• . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1992). .
• See: Henry A. Murray.
• . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (1993). .
• '. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1998).
• '. New York: Fordham University Press (2007).
• In: . New York: Greenhaven Press. .