Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy / Mark Twain ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Other Authors: Graff, Gerald
Phelan, James, 1951-
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2004], ©2004.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Adventures of Huckleberry Finn > Criticism and interpretation.
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Mississippi River > Fiction.
Runaway children > Fiction.
Male friendship > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Missouri > Fiction.
Boys > Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Genre:
Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Physical Description:x, 550 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
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.