New essays on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / edited by Louis J. Budd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Budd, Louis J.

Series:

American novel

The American novel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Twain, Mark.

Physical Description:

viii, 136 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Summary:

This series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical tends and readings from first publication to the present.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Louis J. Budd Budd, Louis J.

2 Mark Twain, 'Realism' and Huckleberry Finn / Michael Davitt Bell Bell, Michael Davitt

3 'An art so high': style in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Janet Holmgren McKay McKay, Janet Holmgren

4 'Nobody but our gang warn't around': the authority of language in Huckleberry Finn / Lee Clark Mitchell Mitchell, Lee Clark

5 Reading Huckleberry Finn: the rhetoric of performed ideology / Steven Mailloux Mailloux, Steven.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 135-136.

ISBN:

0521267293

OCLC:

11969740