| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
x, 550 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The life of Samuel Clemens and the reception of Huckleberry Finn -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : the 1885 text -- A portfolio of illustrations from the 1885 edition -- The controversy over the ending : did Mark Twain sell Jim down the river? A certain formal aptness / Lionel Trilling ; The boy and the river : without beginning or end / T.S. Eliot ; Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn / Leo Marx ; Jim's Africanist presence in Huckleberry Finn / Toni Morrison ; Huckleberry Finn or, consequences / Stacey Margolis ; From Deadpan Huck / Sacvan Bercovitch -- The controversy over race : does Huckleberry Finn combat or reinforce racist attitudes? Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Julius Lester ; Born to trouble : one hundred years of Huckleberry Finn / Justin Kaplan ; The struggle for tolerance : race and censorship in Huckleberry Finn / Peaches Henry ; More than a reader's response : a letter to "De ole true Huck" / Gerry Brenner ; On the nature and status of covert texts : a reply to Gerry Brenner's "Letter to 'De ole true Huck' / James Phelan ; From Huckleberry Finn as idol and target / Jonathan Arac ; Say it ain't so, Huck : second thoughts on Mark Twain's "masterpiece" / Jane Smiley ; Selling Huck Finn down the river : a response to Jane Smiley / Seymour Chwast -- The controversy over gender and sexuality : are Twain's sexual politics progressive, regressive, or beside the point? Reformers and young maidens : women and virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Nancy A. Walker ; Reading gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Myra Jehlen ; Walker versus Jehlen versus Twain / Frederick Crews ; A response to Frederick Crews / Martha Woodmansee ; Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck Honey! / Leslie Fiedler ; "Innocent homosexuality" : the Fiedler thesis in retrospect / Christopher Looby. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Mississippi River -- Fiction.
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Runaway children -- Fiction.
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Male friendship -- Fiction.
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Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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Missouri -- Fiction.
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Boys -- Fiction.
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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
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| Genre/Form |
Adventure fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| Added Author |
Graff, Gerald.
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Phelan, James, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0312400292 |
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9780312400293 |
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