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.[1] He's the author of The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain.[2]

Not to be confused with Forrest Robinson, the American actor.

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
  • In Bad Faith: Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America
  • An Apology for Poetry. Edited, With an Introd. and Notes, by Forrest G. Robinson
  • The Shape of Things Known: Sidney's Apology in its Philosophical Tradition
  • Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray
  • The Author-Cat: Clemens Life in Fiction[5]
  • The New Western History: The Territory Ahead, University of Arizona Press (1998)
  • Having it Both Ways: Self-subversion in Western Popular Classics, University of New Mexico Press (1993)
  • Wallace Stegner with Margaret G. Robinson (1977)[6]

Further reading

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). "Reviewed work: The Author-Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction, Forrest G. Robinson". The New England Quarterly. 81 (4): 714–716. doi:10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.714. JSTOR 20474685. S2CID 144532123 – via JSTOR.
  6. Robinson, Forrest Glen; Robinson, Margaret G. (November 20, 1977). Wallace Stegner. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 9780805771824 – via Google Books.


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