Adventures of Huckleberry Finn /

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn /

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Provides a collection of critical essays on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rasmussen, R. Kent (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character)
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism.
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictional character)
Slavery in literature.
Humor in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • Note on Names and Terms Used in This Book
  • The Book and the Author
  • On Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • "Bessie" or "Becky": Should We Care about Text?
  • Huck's Reception during Three Centuries
  • Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Expelled: Censorship and the Classroom
  • Huckleberry Finn vs. Uncle Tom's Cabin as Antislavery Novels
  • Critical Readings
  • Animating the Unsaid: Between the Lines in Huckleberry Finn
  • "How a body can see and don't see at the same time": Reading Humor in Huckleberry Finn
  • The Reluctant Author: Huck Finn's Metafictional Partnership with Mark Twain
  • Is Huckleberry Finn a Picaresque Novel?
  • Identity Switching in Huckleberry Finn
  • "Pow-wows of cussing": Profanity and Euphemistic Variants in Huckleberry Finn
  • Why Huck Finn Can't Stand Being Sivilized
  • "Huck Finn, He Hain't Got No Family": Home, Family, and Parenting in Huckleberry Finn
  • "It's Tom Sawyer!" (No it ain't . . . it's Huck Finn!)
  • Resources
  • Chronology of Mark Twain's Life and Legacy
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.