Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Essays on its background, themes, style, and ending accompany the story of Huck Finn and Jim, an escaped slave, as they travel down the Mississippi

Preface

iii

Why Study Critical Controversies?

1

(18)

PART ONE Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Life of Samuel Clemens and the Reception of Huckleberry Finn

19

(8)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The 1885 Text

27

(239)

A Portfolio of Illustrations from the 1885 Edition

266

(13)

PART TWO A Case Study in Critical Controversy

The Controversy over the Ending: Did Mark Twain Sell Jim down the River?

279

(56)

A Certain Formal Aptness

284

(2)

Lionel Trilling

The Boy and the River: Without Beginning or End

286

(4)

T. S. Eliot

Huckleberry Finn

290

(15)

Leo Marx

Mr. Eliot

Mr. Trilling

Attacks on the Ending and Twain's Attack on Conscience

305

(7)

James M. Cox

Overreaching: Critical Agenda and the Ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

312

(23)

Richard Hill

The Controversy over Race: Does Huckleberry Finn Combat or Reinforce Racist Attitudes?

335

(145)

Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

340

(8)

Julius Lester

Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn

348

(11)

Justin Kaplan

The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn

359

(24)

Peaches Henry

Kemble's ``Specialty'' and the Pictorial Countertext of Huckleberry Finn

383

(24)

Earl F. Briden

From Was Huck Black?

407

(43)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

More than a Reader's Response: A Letter to ``De Ole True Huck''

450

(18)

Gerry Brenner

On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner's ``Letter to `De Ole True Huck'''

468

(12)

James Phelan

The Controversy over Gender and Sexuality: Are Twain's Sexual Politics Progressive, Regressive, or Beside the Point?

480

Reformers and Young Maidens: Women and Virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

485

Nancy A. Walker

Reading Gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

505

Myra Jehlen

Walker versus Jehlen versus Twain

518

Frederick Crews

A Response to Frederick Crews

525

Martha Woodmansee

Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!

528

Leslie Fiedler

``Innocent Homosexuality'': The Fiedler Thesis in Retrospect

535

Christopher Looby

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