Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
Edition Statement:Fourth edition.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Imprint2022
Descriptionxiii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note:The text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Contexts and sources -- Models and illustrations -- [from Mark Twain's Autobiography: Tom Blankenship and the Quarles Farm] / Mark Twain -- Little Andrew / Julia A. Moore -- To Mollie / Sam Clemens -- Fugitive slave notice -- Image of a kneeling black man -- Sociable Jimmy / Mark Twain -- Kemble's "specialty" and the pictorial countertext of Huckleberry Finn / Earl F. Briden -- from Rafts and other rivercraft in Huckleberry Finn / Peter G. Beidler -- Composition and publication -- [Letters about Huckleberry Finn] / Mark Twain -- Publishing circular: Confidential terms to agents -- from "The dialects in Huckleberry Finn" / David Carkeet -- from Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain's creative process / Victor A. Doyno -- A banned book: from bad grammar to "racist trash" -- Boston Transcript, March 1885 -- Springfield Republican, March 1885 -- Prefatory remark / Mark Twain -- The case against Huck Finn / John H. Wallace -- from The Jim dilemma / Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua -- Criticism -- Highlights from the first 100 years -- [Review] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) / [William Ernest Henley] -- [The first major American review] (1885) / Thomas Sergeant Perry -- ["The Lincoln of our literature"] (1910) / William Dean Howells -- ["Too good to be true"] (1948) / Leslie Fiedler -- ["The faint-hearted ending"] (1953) / Leo Marx -- ["Some rare richness here"] (1958) / Ralph Ellison -- ["Huck's mental struggle"] (1962) / Henry Nash Smith -- ["Pure Hemingway disguised"] (1984) / Norman Mailer -- Modern views -- ["This amazing, troubling book"] / Toni Morrison -- from Was Huck black? / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith -- Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed -- Say it ain't so, Huck: second thoughts on Mark Twain's "masterpeice" / Jane Smiley -- The flawed greatness of Huckleberry Finn / Tom Quirk -- The river of consciousness in Huck Finn / Thomas Cooley -- from Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the era that shaped his masterpiece / Andrew Levy -- Mark Twain: a chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-469).
Note:"The fourth edition of Norton Critical Edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is based on the 1885 edition of the text and features all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The story follows a young boy from a town on the Mississippi River and his adventures as he travels with a runaway slave in pursuit of freedom. The "Contexts and Sources" include Mark Twain's letters about Huckleberry Finn and other sources related to the background and reception. "Early Response and Classic Criticism" delivers reviews ranging from 1884 to 1984. "Modern Views" provide the readers with reviews of the narrative including discussion on racial themes. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included."-- Provided by publisher.
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