Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan - Second Edition, 2004 from Macmillan Student Store
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Second  Edition©2004 Mark Twain, Edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan

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Like its popular predecessor, this critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain’s classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The novel and essays are supported by distinctive editorial material — including introductions to critical conflict in literary studies, to Twain’s life and work, and to each critical controversy highlighted in this edition — that helps students grapple not only with the novel’s critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself. In addition to several new critical essays, the second edition includes an appendix on how to argue about the novel so that students may more effectively enter the critical conversation about its issues.

Table of Contents

    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
    Jane Smiley, from Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Twain's "Masterpiece"
    Seymour Chwast, Selling Huck Down the River
    
  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
    Shelley Fisher Fishkin, from Lighting Out for the Territory
    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'"
    Jonathan Arac, from Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target
    Toni Morrison, On Reading Huckleberry Finn
    Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua, from The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
    
  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
    
  Appendix: How to Argue about Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty.

Gerald Graff

Gerald Graff is coeditor with James Phelan of two Bedford Case Studies in Critical Controversy, Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and The Tempest, both in second editions.  He is one of the most eminent figures in literary studies and education today through his influential pedagogy of "teaching the conflicts," which he developed as a professor of English at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and as a professor of English and Education in his current position at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His other widely read books include Professing Literarture (1987), Beyond the Culture Wars (1992), Clueless in Academe (2003), and (with Cathy Birkenstein) the textbook They Say/I Say.  He served as President of the Modern Language Association of America in 2008.

James Phelan

James Phelan is a professor of English and chair of the English department at the Ohio State University.  He is editor of the award-winning journal Narrative,  and has written and edited several books on literary theory, including Worlds from Words (1981), Reading People, Reading Plots (1989), and Narrative as Rhetoric (1996), and has published a memoir of teaching literature in the academy, Beyond the Tenure Track (1991).  With Gerald Graff, he is coeditor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (1995).