New essays on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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New essays on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

edited by Louis J. Budd

（The American novel / general editor, Emory Elliott）

Cambridge University Press, 1985

  • : pbk

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New essays on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

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Bibliography: p. 135-136

Spine title of 1987 reprinting: New essays on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

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Description

The essays in this volume represent a wide range of approaches to one of the most popular of all American novels. Michael Bell re-examines the crucial issue of romanticism versus realism in the book. Janet McKay discusses the linguistic subtleties of the novel, showing the social implications inherent in Twain's brilliant use of the vernacular. Lee Mitchell draws on post-structuralist theories to question Huck's own assumption that words themselves can represent the social world. Steven Mailloux combines sociopolitical perspectives and the methods of contemporary 'reader-response' analysis to identify how humour is generated in Huckleberry Finn and to enrich our understanding of the novel's topical impact.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction Louis J. Budd
  • 2. Mark Twain, 'Realism' and Huckleberry Finn Michael Davitt Bell
  • 3. 'An art so high': style in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Janet Holmgren McKay
  • 4. 'Nobody but our gang warn't around': the authority of language in Huckleberry Finn Lee Clark Mitchell
  • 5. Reading Huckleberry Finn: the rhetoric of performed ideology Steven Mailloux
  • Notes on contributors
  • Selected bibliography.

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