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Scholars have reacted to Wilson's charges with something less than cool objectivity. "Edmund Wilson, who is to be admired and cherished for the things he can do, has made a fool of himself this time. He is very, very wrong," says Dr. Matthew Bruccoli, head of the English Department at Ohio State University, which is producing the M.L.A.'s Hawthorne edition. Twain Scholar Hen ry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley complains that "Wilson paws and snorts like a bull moose. He seems to be saying that we should correct serious distortions, but doesn...