Mark Twain's The adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781617530005
Subjects: Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character); Boys in literature; Race relations in literature; American Adventure stories; In literature; History and criticism
Other titles: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-112) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biographical sketch; title: The story behind the story; title: List of characters; title: Summary and analysis; title: Critical views; title: Henry Nash Smith on Tom Sawyer, inadequate hero; title: James M. Cox on play, pleasure, and showing off in the novel; title: Judith Fetterley on Tom as a local antidote to boredom; title: Lee Clark Mitchell on appearance and voice in the novel; title: E.L. Doctorow on the child reader and the adult reader; title: Albert E. Stone offers some general remarks; title: Michael J. Kiskis reconsiders Twain's values; title: John Bird examines Twain's double narrator strategy; title: Harold K. Bush Jr. on attitudes toward religion and the village church; title: Roy Blount Jr. on Twain as political commentator; title: Works by Mark Twain; title: Annotated bibliography.