The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Alberti, John. “The Nigger Huck: Race, Identity, and the Teaching of Huckleberry Finn.” College English 57, no. 8 (December 1995): 919-937.

Reviews the reception history of Huckleberry Finn, especially the reaction to the word “nigger,” and suggests guidelines for teaching the novel in the modern classroom.

Arac, Jonathan. “Putting the River on New Maps: Nation, Race, and Beyond in Reading Huckleberry Finn.” American Literary History 8 (spring 1996): 110-29.

Review of books about Twain.

———. “Why Does No One Care about the Aesthetic Value of Huckleberry Finn?” New Literary History 30, no. 4 (autumn 1999): 769-84.

Argues that Huckleberry Finn is critiqued more for its social and political values than for its aesthetic merits.

Beaver, Harold. Huckleberry Finn. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987,...

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