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]

In 1972, Robinson was a Guggenheim Fellow.^[3]

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]

• 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). ISBN 0805771824, 978-0805771824.
• In Bad Faith: Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1986). ISBN 978-0674445277.
• Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1992). ISBN 0674539281.
  • See: Henry A. Murray.
• Having it Both Ways: Self-subversion in Western Popular Classics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (1993). ISBN 0826314538.
• 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.