Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain, Gerald Graff and James Phelan

• ISBN13: 9780312112257
• ISBN10: 0312112254
• Edition: 95th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: BEDFORD BOOKS

Summary

Essays on its background, themes, style, and ending accompany the story of Huck Finn and Jim, an escaped slave, as they travel down the Mississippi

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Why Study Critical Controversies?	1	(18)
PART ONE Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Life of Samuel Clemens and the Reception of Huckleberry Finn	19	(8)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The 1885 Text	27	(239)
A Portfolio of Illustrations from the 1885 Edition	266	(13)
PART TWO A Case Study in Critical Controversy
The Controversy over the Ending: Did Mark Twain Sell Jim down the River?	279	(56)
A Certain Formal Aptness	284	(2)
Lionel Trilling
The Boy and the River: Without Beginning or End	286	(4)
T. S. Eliot
Huckleberry Finn	290	(15)
Leo Marx
Mr. Eliot
Mr. Trilling
Attacks on the Ending and Twain's Attack on Conscience	305	(7)
James M. Cox
Overreaching: Critical Agenda and the Ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	312	(23)
Richard Hill
The Controversy over Race: Does Huckleberry Finn Combat or Reinforce Racist Attitudes?	335	(145)
Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	340	(8)
Julius Lester
Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn	348	(11)
Justin Kaplan
The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn	359	(24)
Peaches Henry
Kemble's ``Specialty'' and the Pictorial Countertext of Huckleberry Finn	383	(24)
Earl F. Briden
From Was Huck Black?	407	(43)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
More than a Reader's Response: A Letter to ``De Ole True Huck''	450	(18)
Gerry Brenner
On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner's ``Letter to `De Ole True Huck'''	468	(12)
James Phelan
The Controversy over Gender and Sexuality: Are Twain's Sexual Politics Progressive, Regressive, or Beside the Point?	480
Reformers and Young Maidens: Women and Virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	485
Nancy A. Walker
Reading Gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	505
Myra Jehlen
Walker versus Jehlen versus Twain	518
Frederick Crews
A Response to Frederick Crews	525
Martha Woodmansee
Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!	528
Leslie Fiedler
``Innocent Homosexuality'': The Fiedler Thesis in Retrospect	535
Christopher Looby