Further Reading
- Budd, Louis J. and Cady, Edwin H., eds., "On Mark Twain: The Best from 'American Literature,'" Duke University Press, 1987, 303 p. (Collection of reprinted essays from the journal American Literature. Contains Hamlin H. Hill's study of Twain's notes and early drafts of Tom Sawyer that show the evolution of the final manuscript of the novel, as well as an analysis of "Mark Twain and the Endangered Family" by James Grove.)
- Byers, John R., Jr., "A Hannibal Summer: The Framework of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Studies in American Fiction 8, No. 1 (Spring 1980): 81-88. (Analysis of narrative structure in Tom Sawyer that focuses on the book's portrayal of the passage of time.)
- Cox, James M., "Remarks on the Sad Initiation of Huckleberry Finn," Sewanee Review LXII, No. 3 (July-September 1954): 389-405. (Contends that Tom Sawyer functions as Huck's "other half," in both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.)
- Farrell, James T., "Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer," in The League of Frightened Philistines and Other Papers, New York: Vanguard Press, N.d. [1945], pp. 25-30. (Brief essay examining the characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as manifestations of Twain's democratic ideal.)
- Fetterley, Judith, "Disenchantment: Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn," PMLA 87, No. 1 (January 1972): 69-74. (Analysis of Tom Sawyer as portrayed in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.)
- Fiedler, Leslie A., "Boys Will Be Boys!" The New Leader XLI, No. 17 (28 April 1958): 23-26. (Analyzes the ways in which the "good bad boys" portrayed in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn continue to influence American literature.)
- Fiedler, Leslie A., "Duplicitous Mark Twain," Commentary 29, No. 3 (March 1960): 239-48. (Examines Twain's treatment of such themes as sexuality, violence, and death in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.)
- France, Clemens J., "Mark Twain as an Educator," Education XXI, No. 5 (January 1901): 265-74. (Analysis of the educational value of Twain's boys' books as reading material for children.)
- Gerber, John C., Mark Twain, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988, 176 p. (Survey of Twain's life and major works that includes a chapter devoted to Tom Sawyer.)
- Gibson, William M., The Art of Mark Twain, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976, 230 p. (Critical assessment of Twain's major works; contains a chapter that discusses Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.)
- Hinz, John, "Huck and Pluck: 'Bad' Boys in American Fiction," The South Atlantic Quarterly LI, No. 1 (January 1952): 20-29. (Analysis of the "bad boy" tradition in American literature that includes discussion of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.)
- Kesterson, David B., ed., Critics on Mark Twain, Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1973, 128 p. (Survey of the critical response to Twain's works from 1882 to 1973; includes two commentaries on Tom Sawyer.)
- Peck, Elizabeth G., "Tom Sawyer: Character in Search of an Audience," ATQ 2, No. 3 (September 1988): 223-36. (Argues that Tom Sawyer represents Twain's satirical view of "the paltry human race" and is ultimately the narcissistic product of a hypocritical community of adults.)
- Stone, Albert E., Jr., The Innocent Eye: Childhood in Mark Twain's Imagination, N.p.: Archon Books, 1970, 289 p. (Book-length study of Twain's treatment of childhood in his major works.)
- Wexman, Virginia, "The Role of Structure in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn," American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 6, No. 1 (Winter 1973): 1-11. (Comparison of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn that focuses on Twain's depiction of the relationship between "the world of childish … fancy and the sphere of real actions with moral meaning.")
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