Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a case study in critical controversy
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
- : Macmillan
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
This edition of one of the most widely-taught works of American literature reprints the 1885 first edition text of Mark Twain's celebrated novel along with seventeen critical essays engaging three major critical controversies about the text. Editorial apparatus helps students grapple with the essays and develops their understanding of the current issues animating literary studies.
Table of Contents
Preface - Why Study Critical Controversies? - PART 1: THE TEXT OF ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN - Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The 1885 Text - PART 2: A CASE STUDY IN CRITICAL CONTROVERSY - Introduction: Huckleberry Finn and Its Critical Controversies - Is There a Problem with the Ending of Huckleberry Finn? - Lionel Trilling, Introduction to Huckleberry Finn - T.S. Eliot, Introduction to Huckleberry Finn - Leo Marx, Mr Eliot, Mr Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn - James M. Cox, from The Fate of Humor - Richard Hill, Overreaching: Critical Agenda and the Ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Is Huckleberry Finn a Racist Text? - Peaches Henry, The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn - Julius Lester, Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Justin Kaplan, Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn - Shelly Fisher Fishkin, from Was Huck Black? - Karen Lystra, Review of Shelly Fisher Fishkin's Was Huck Black? - Gerry Brenner, More than a Reader's Response: A Letter to 'De Ole True Huck' - James Phelan, On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner's 'Letter to 'De Old True Huck'' - Are Gender and Sexuality Important in Huckleberry Finn? - Leslie Fiedler, Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! - Christopher Looby, Response to Leslie Fiedler - Nancy Walker, Reformers and Young Maidens: Women and Virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Myra Jehlen, Reading Gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Frederick Crews, Huckleberry Finn and the Limits of Gender Criticism
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