Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Subtitle: complete text with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays
By: Mark Twain ; edited by Susan K. Harris ; with the assistance of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
Contributors: Harris, Susan K., 1945-; Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae.
Series: New Riverside editions
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780395980781
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Runaway children -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In addition to the entire text of what some consider the quintessential American novel, this comprehensive volume features materials that help place the novel in perspective with its time and place. "Contexts" includes essays on the composition of the novel, the people and history of the Upper Mississippi Valley, slavery, and the critical reception of the novel upon its publication. "Readings" includes Henry Nash Smith's introduction to the 1958 Riverside Edition of the novel, as well as critical essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-392).
Table of contents: title: I. Contexts Victor Doyno, The Composition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn George E. Bates, Jr. et al., "Barges" from Historic Life Styles in the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland, From Sunup to Sundown: The Life of the Slave Rev. William Henry Milburn, from Pioneers, Preachers, and People of the Mississippi Valley Lawrence W. Levine, William Shakespeare and the American People Steven Mailloux, "The Bad-Boy Boom" from Rhetorical Power Shelley Fisher Fishkin, from Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices Victor Fischer, Huck Finn Reviewed: The Reception of Huckleberry Finn in the United States, 1885-1897 II. The Text Adventures of Huckleberry Finn III. Readings Henry Nash Smith, Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Alan Trachtenberg, The Form of Freedom in Huckleberry Finn David L. Smith, Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse Norman Mailer, Huckleberry Finn: Alive at 100 Toni Morrison, Re-Marking Twain Chronology Works Cited For Further Reading