Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

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    • Hutchinson, Stuart

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Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

edited by Stuart Hutchinson

(Columbia critical guides / series editor, Richard Beynon)

Columbia University Press, [1999]

  • pbk.

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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

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Originally published in the Icon Critical Guides series in 1998 by Icon Books Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-145) and index

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Description

In Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain presented for the first time the vernacular of the Mississippi River region, explored the myths and fables of the nation's past, and looked to the choices facing a rapidly changing society. Moving from a discussion of the novels' early receptions, this Columbia Critical Guide explores nineteenth- and twentieth-century criticism by William Dean Howells, T. S. Eliot, Leslie Fiedler, Ralph Ellison, Norman Mailer, and Toni Morrison. In its final section, the book provides students with important material on the contemporary debates about race and gender in these novels so that new perspectives on Twain's place in American literature may be fully understood.

Table of Contents

Mark Twain's Life and Work The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876): The Contemporary Reviews Tom Sawyer: Twentieth-Century Criticism The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-85): Dates of Composition and Contemporary Reviews Huckleberry Finn: The Response of Creative Writers Huckleberry Finn: Twentieth-Century Critical Response

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