Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical DocumentsBloomsbury Academic, 1996 M06 24 - 264 pages 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 This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the stormy character of the slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy of past conflicts in contemporary society. Among the source materials presented are: memoirs of fugitive slaves, a river gambler, a gunman, and Mississippi Valley settlers; the Southern Code of Honor; rules of dueling; and an interview with a 1990s gang member. |
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... lived in Nevada , he not only did mining and prospecting , he began working as a newspaperman for the Territorial Enterprise and the Virginia City Enterprise . Around this time , in 1863 , he began to write under the name Mark Twain , a ...
... lived in a good - sized and fairly well established town right on the Mississippi River , the Dyers lived on an isolated farm some sixteen miles from the busy water- way . Dyer's childhood does not appear to have been as carefree as ...
... lived there until I was ten years of age . Then my parents moved to Algoma , where they have lived until the pres- ent day , and I live near them , one mile west of Edgerton . Little Andrew Air - Gypsy's Warning Andrew was a little ...
Contents
Censorship and Race | 29 |
Kenney J Williams Mark Twains Racial Ambiguity | 41 |
Mark Twains Mississippi Valley | 47 |
Copyright | |
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