Overview

Proclaimed by H.L. Mencken as one of the great masterpieces of the world and by Ernest Hemingway as the source of all modern American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains firmly established in both the American and world literary canons as a classic work of literature. Yet it continues to have its critical detractors and still arouses the kind of impassioned controversy that banned it from the Concord, Massachusetts, Public Library on publication as trashy and vicious. The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn contains newspaper articles, book reviews, and scholarly essays spanning the period from the early response in the 1880s, through the centennial celebration, to the present. The collection reflects the major literary trends and issues of response to Huckleberry Finn, such as the persistent attempts to ban the book, the literary criticism concerning the book's ending, and the many thematic interpretations. Among the essayists included are literary figures such as T.S. Eliot and Twain specialist scholars such as Walter Blair, Leo Marx, and James Cox. The text of an ABC-TV Nightline News Special on the centennial, Huckleberry Finn: Literature or Racist Trash is printed. Editor Champion provides an introductory overview on the range and issues of critical response, a feature on the various adaptations of Huckleberry Finn, and a bibliography of additional scholarship. Of interest to any scholar or researcher of Mark Twain, the collection would be valuable to teachers and students reading Huckleberry Finn at any level from high school upward.

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Author:   Laurie Champion ,  Cameron Northouse
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Volume:   No 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.573kg
ISBN:  

9780313275753

ISBN 10:   0313275750
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 November 1991
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction Early Response Mark Twain in a Dilemma--A Victim of a Joke He Thinks the Most Unkindest Cut of All Estes & Lauriat Lawsuit The Concord Library Committee's Banning of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Attributed to William Ernest Henley Huckleberry Finn by Brander Matthews Huckleberry Finn Modern Comic Literature Attributed to Andrew Lang Mark Twain by Thomas Sergeant Perry Criticism 1930-1959 Huckleberry Finn is Fifty Years Old--Yes; But is He Respectable? by Asa Don Dickinson Books in General by V. S. Pritchett Come Back to the Raft Agi'n, Huck Honey! by Leslie Fiedler Introduction by T.S. Eliot Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn by Leo Marx Criticism 1960-1985 A Sound Heart and a Deformed Conscience by Henry Nash Smith The Raft Episode in Huckleberry Finn by Peter G. Beidler The Form of Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Alan Trachtenberg The Paradox of Liberation in Huckleberry Finn by Neil Schmitz Was Huckleberry Finn Written? by Walter Blair The Dialects in Huckleberry Finn by David Carkeet Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and Jacob Blivens: Gilt-Edged, Tree-Calf Morality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Harold H. Kolb, Jr. The Making of a Humorist: The Narrative Strategy of Huckleberry Finn by Barry A. Marks Huckleberry Finn is a Moral Story by Robert Nadeau Huck Finn is Offensive by John H. Wallace ""Sivilizing"" Huck Finn by Roger Sutton Reagan and Huck Finn: The Twain Meet: The President Defends the Values of an American Classic by Lawrence Feinberg Huckleberry Finn: Literature or Racist Trash? Centennial Celebration Huck Finn: 100 Years of Durn Fool Problems by Lou Willett Stanek Huck at 100 by Leo Marx Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by David Heim A Hard Book to Take by James M. Cox Contemporary Criticism Run, Nigger, Run by Harold Beaver The Recomposition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Louis J. Budd The Characterization of Jim in Huckleberry Finn by Forrest G. Robinson Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Tom Quirk Mark Twain and the Fires of Controversy: Teaching Racially-Sensitive Literature: Or, ""Say That ""N' Word and Out You Go"" by Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua Critical Views on Adaptations of Huckleberry Finn by Laurie Champion Selected Additional Readings Index"

Reviews

?Champion's The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1991) makes a worthy addition to these convenient research tools for students of Twain's novel.?-Southern Quarterly ?This excellent guide to perhaps the most popular novel in American literary history collects important essays and reviews from early responses of 1885 (the date of the book's first American publication) to recent times. Recommended for all reference collections on American literature.?-Reference Book Review Champion's The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1991) makes a worthy addition to these convenient research tools for students of Twain's novel. -Southern Quarterly This excellent guide to perhaps the most popular novel in American literary history collects important essays and reviews from early responses of 1885 (the date of the book's first American publication) to recent times. Recommended for all reference collections on American literature. -Reference Book Review

"?Champion's The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1991) makes a worthy addition to these convenient research tools for students of Twain's novel.?-Southern Quarterly ?This excellent guide to perhaps the most popular novel in American literary history collects important essays and reviews from early responses of 1885 (the date of the book's first American publication) to recent times. Recommended for all reference collections on American literature.?-Reference Book Review ""Champion's The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1991) makes a worthy addition to these convenient research tools for students of Twain's novel.""-Southern Quarterly ""This excellent guide to perhaps the most popular novel in American literary history collects important essays and reviews from early responses of 1885 (the date of the book's first American publication) to recent times. Recommended for all reference collections on American literature.""-Reference Book Review"

?This excellent guide to perhaps the most popular novel in American literary history collects important essays and reviews from early responses of 1885 (the date of the book's first American publication) to recent times. Recommended for all reference collections on American literature.?-Reference Book Review

Author Information

LAURIE CHAMPION, a graduate student at the University of North Texas, is working on a collection of critical essays on Eudora Welty's fiction to appear in the same Greenwood Press series.

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