Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy /

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy / Mark Twain ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan. - Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995. - viii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 ; Attacks on the ending and Twain's attack on conscience / James M. Cox ; Overreaching : critical agenda and the ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Richard Hill
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 ; Kemble's "specialty" and the pictorial countertext of Huckleberry Finn / Earl F. Briden ; From Was Huck Black? / Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; 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'
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 Hehlen ; 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

Contains the complete text of "Huckleberry Finn" and eighteen essays that address three major controversies that surround the novel, including sexual orientation, Mark Twain's ending, and racism

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Crítica e interpretación
Huckleberry Finn --Crítica e interpretación
Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) --Fiction.


Runaway children--Fiction.
Novela estadounidense
Novela de aventuras
Male friendship--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.


Mississippi River--Fiction.
Missouri--Fiction.


Adventure fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.

PS 1305 / T969ad 1995

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