Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - 95 edition

Preface
Why Study Critical Controversies?


Part I. Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Life of Samuel Clemens and the Reception of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The 1885 Text

A Portfolio of Illustrations from the 1885 Edition

Part II. A Case Study in Critical Controversy

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

Lionel Trilling, A Certain Formal Aptness
T. S. Eliot, The Boy and the River: Without Beginning or End
Leo Marx, Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn
James M. Cox, Attacks on the Ending and Twain's Attack on Conscience
Richard Hill, Overreaching: Critical Agenda and the Ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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

Julius Lester, Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Justin Kaplan, Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn
Peaches Henry, The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn
Earl F. Briden, Kemble's "Specialty" and the Pictorial Countertext of Huckleberry Finn
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, From Was Huck Black?
Gerry Brenner, More than a Reader's Response: A Letter to "De Ole True Huck"
James Phelan, On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner's "Letter to 'De Ole True Huck'"

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

Nancy A. Walker, Reformers and Young Maidens: Women and Virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Myra Jehlen, Reading Gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Frederick Crews, Walker Versus Jehlen Versus Twain
Martha Woodmansee, A Response to Frederick Crews
Leslie Fiedler, Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!
Christopher Looby, "Innocent Homosexuality": The Fiedler Thesis in Retrospect

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