a case study in critical controversy Twain, Mark 1835-1910 creator Graff, Gerald 1937- editor Phelan, James 1951- editor text bibliography Adventure fiction. Humorous fiction. Bildungsromans. mau Boston Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press c1995 1995 monographic eng

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viii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. 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 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 Mark Twain ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan. Includes bibliographical references. n-us-mo n-usm-- Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Crítica e interpretación Huckleberry Finn Crítica e interpretación (Fictitious character) Finn, Huckleberry 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 PS 1305 T969ad 1995 813/.4 0312112254 (pbk.) 9780312112257 (pbk.) 94072330 DLC 940804 20230411090815.0 3963492 eng