Forrest G. Robinson Explained

Forrest Glen Robinson
Nationality:	American
Discipline:	History
Workplaces:	University 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). .
• In Bad Faith: Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1986). .
• Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1992). .
  • See: Henry A. Murray.
• Having it Both Ways: Self-subversion in Western Popular Classics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (1993). .
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Forrest Robinson, UC Santa Cruz | Distinguished Professor of Humanities. forrestrobinson.sites.ucsc.edu.
2. Crow . Charles L. . 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 . 1997 . 31 . 4 . 384–388 . 10.1353/wal.1997.0092 . 1 December 2020 . en . 1948-7142.
3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Forrest G. Robinson . Guggenheim Foundation . 1 December 2020.
4. In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America by Forrest G. Robinson (review). Kenneth E.. Eble. November 20, 1987. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 41. 4. 265–266. 10.2307/1347305. 1347305. 201784714. 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. . . .