Bibliograph

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete text with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays, Mark Twain ; edited by Susan K. Harris ; with the assistance of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Type

Label

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete text with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays, Mark Twain ; edited by Susan K. Harris ; with the assistance of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-392)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43573522

Responsibility statement

Mark Twain ; edited by Susan K. Harris ; with the assistance of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Series statement

New Riverside editions

Sub title

complete text with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays

Summary

When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is also running away. Together, they travel by raft down the Mississippi, tumbling in and out of amazing adventures -- from a floating house to a funeral, a shipwreck to a circus -- and experience some of the strange ways of people in the Deep South

Table Of Contents

Contexts. The composition of adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Barges from historic life styles in the Upper Mississippi River Valley -- From sunup to sundown : the life of a slave -- Pioneers, preacher, the people of the Mississippi Valley -- William Shakespeare and the American people -- The bad-boy boom from rhetorical power -- Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices -- Huck Finn Reviewed : the reception of Huckleberry Finn in the United States, 1885 -- 1897 -- The text. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Readings. Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The form of freedom in Huckleberry Finn -- Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse -- Huckleberry Finn : alive at 100 -- Re-marking Twain

Classification