Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy / Mark Twain ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan
Imprint
Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2004
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
x, 550 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
SUMMARY
Contains the 1855 text of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," including several of its illustrations, and presents twenty critical essays as examples of the controversy the novel has generated
CONTENT
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