Waubonsee Community College

Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents, Claudia Durst Johnson

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Claudia Durst Johnson

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series,, 1074-598X

a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has generated heated controversy. One of the most frequently banned books in the history of literature, it raises issues of race relations, censorship, civil disobedience, and adolescent group psychology as relevant today as they were in the 1880s. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the student's understanding of the issues raised. It captures the stormy character of the slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy of those conflicts in contemporary society. This is an ideal companion for teacher use and student research in interdisciplinary, English, and American history courses

1. Literary analysis : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and forms of enslavement2. Unfit for children : censorship and race -- "The case against Huck Finn" in Satire or evasion? Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn /John H. Wallace -- " Morality and adventures of Huckleberry Finn", in Satire or evasion? / Julius Lester -- "Huck, Jim, and racial discourse" in Satire or evasion? / David L. Smith -- "Mark Twain's racial ambiguity" in Satire or evasion? / Kenney J. Wiliams -- "One hateful word" / Kenneth B. Noble -- "We give this slur its power" / William Raspberry3. Mark Twain's Mississippi Valley -- Autobiography and reminiscences / David P. Dyer -- The life of Tom Horn / Tom Horn -- Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand / James W. Evans and A. Wendell Keith -- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau -- Wild sports in the far West / Frederick Gerstaecker -- Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi / George H. Devol4. Slavery, its legacy, and adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- "Abolition of Negro slavery" in The pro-slavery argument / Thomas Roderick Dew -- "Letter to an English abolitionist in The pro-slavery argument / James Henry Hammond -- Ought American slavery to be perpetuated? / W.G. Brownlow -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet A. Jacobs -- Autobiography and reminiscences / David P. Dyer -- The Missouri Compromise of 1820 -- The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 -- "The Fugitive Slave Law" in The complete writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The higher law / Willilam Hosmer -- "Measures of adjustment" / Stephen A. Douglas -- The laws of human progress and modern reforms / Orville Dewey -- "The Fugitive Slave Law" in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- "Civil disobedience, the draft and the War / William Sloan Coffin Jr. -- "The freedman's case in equity and the convict lease system in The silent South / Geroge Washington Cable5. The code of honor -- The old South / Thomas Nelson Page -- The code of honor / John Lyde Wilson -- Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- "The code of the streets : an interview with a former gang member" / Larry Watts -- "The code of the streets" / Elijah Anderson --6. Cultural satire : Shakespeare, home decor, sentimental verse -- Annals of the New York Stage / George C.D. Odell -- Parodies of the works of English and American authors -- "The best room" / J.R. Pugh -- The sentimental song book / Julia A. Moore -- Out of the hurly-burly / Max Adeler

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn