Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy / Mark Twain ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan
| Author(s): | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
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| Subjects: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Criticism and interpretation Mississippi River--Fiction Missouri--Fiction Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventure fiction Humorous fiction Bildungsromans Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)--Fiction Runaway children--Fiction Male friendship--Fiction Fugitive slaves--Fiction Race relations--Fiction Boys--Fiction Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | 2nd ed |
| Published: | Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2004 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Pt. 1. Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The life of Samuel Clemens and the reception of Huckleberry Finn 19 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : the 1885 text 27 A portfolio of illustrations from the 1885 edition 264 Pt. 2. A case study in critical controversy The controversy over the ending : did Mark Twain sell Jim down the river? 277 A certain formal aptness / Lionel Trilling 283 The boy and the river : without beginning or end / T. S. Eliot 285 Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn / Leo Marx 289 Jim's Africanist presence in Huckleberry Finn / Toni Morrison 305 Huckleberry Finn; or, consequences / Stacey Margolis 310 from Deadpan Huck / Sacvan Bercovitch 332 The controversy over race : does Huckleberry Finn combat or reinforce racist attitudes? 356 Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Julius Lester 362 Born to trouble : one hundred years of Huckleberry Finn / Justin Kaplan 371 The struggle for tolerance : race and censorship in Huckleberry Finn / Peaches Henry 382 More than a reader's response : a letter to "de ole true Huck" / Gerry Brenner 405 On the nature and status of covert texts : a reply to Gerry Brenner's "letter to 'de ole true Huck'" / James Phelan 423 from Huckleberry Finn as idol and target / Jonathan Arac 435 Say it ain't so, Huck : second thoughts on Mark Twain's "masterpiece" / Jane Smiley 456 Selling Huck Finn down the river : a response to Jane Smiley / Seymour Chwast 466 The controversy over gender and sexuality : are Twain's sexual politics progressive, regressive, or beside the point? 471 Reformers and young maidens : women and virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Nancy A. Walker 476 Reading gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Myra Jehlen 496 Walker versus Jehlen versus Twain / Frederick Crews 509 A response to Frederick Crews / Martha Woodmansee 516 Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck honey! / Leslie Fiedler 519 "Innocent homosexuality" : the Fiedler thesis in retrospect / Christopher Looby 526 App. Writing about critical controversy 542 |
| Additional Authors: | Graff, Gerald Phelan, James, 1951- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2003108335 ISBN: 0312400292 Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | x, 550 p. : ill. ; 21 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 54095508 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0312400292 |