Contributor
Rasmussen, R. Kent, editor.
ImprintIpswich, MA : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2022]
Imprint2022
Description1 online resource (xl, 348 pages) : illustrations, map
Note:On Mark Twain and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / R. Kent Rasmussen -- Critical Contexts -- Tom Sawyer's Evasion of History / Peter Messent -- Tom Sawyer: A Classic Overshadowed by Its Successor / Alan Gribben -- Thinking Like Jackson's Island; Or, Why Tom Sawyer Is Good for the Environment / Joe B. Fulton -- Tom Sawyer and Harry Potter: The Boys Who Live / Philip Bader -- Critical Readings -- The Tom Sawyer Franchise: The Evolution (and Devolution) of a Character / John Bird -- Tom Sawyer: From Boy-Book Hero to Coming-of-Age Hellion / Kevin Mac Donnell -- Is Tom Sawyer an Idyllic Dream or a Boy's Nightmare? / K. Patrick Ober -- Becky Thatcher and Aunt Polly in Three Dimensions / Linda Morris -- Republican Motherhood and Tom Sawyer's Political Education / Hannah J.D Wells -- Injun Joe and Mark Twain's Attitudes toward Native Americans / Kerry Driscoll -- Tom Sawyer as an Enduring Icon of Boyhood / John H. Davis and Hugh H. Davis -- Tom Sawyer's Complicated Relationship with Mark Twain's Hometown / Cindy Lovell -- Illustrating Tom Sawyer / Barbara Schmidt -- The Tom Sawyer Movie That Hollywood Got (Almost) Right / R. Kent Rasmussen -- Adventuring with Tom Sawyer in a Twenty-first-Century Classroom / John R. Pascal -- Resources -- Tom Sawyer's Cave: Fact vs. Fiction / Danny Norman-- Chronology of Mark Twain's Life and Legacy -- Works by Mark Twain -- Bibliography -- Notable Editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Published Plays Adapted from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Its Characters -- Illustrators of American Editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Filmography.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Note:Provides a collection of critical essays on Mark Twain's novel The adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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