Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : A Case Study in Critical Controversy

Preface iii Why Study Critical Controversies? 1(18) PART ONE Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Life of Samuel Clemens and the Reception of Huckleberry Finn 19(8) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The 1885 Text 27(237) A Portfolio of Illustrations from the 1885 Edition 264(13) PART TWO A Case Study in Critical Controversy The Controversy over the Ending: Did Mark Twain Sell Jim down the River? 277(79) A Certain Formal Aptness 283(2) Lionel Trilling The Boy and the River: Without Beginning or End 285(4) T. S. Eliot Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn 289(16) Leo Marx Jim's Africanist Presence in Huckleberry Finn 305(5) Toni Morrison Huckleberry Finn; Or, Consequences 310(22) Stacey Margolis from Deadpan Huck 332(24) Sacvan Bercovitch The Controversy over Race: Does Huckleberry Finn Combat or Reinforce Racist Attitudes? 356(115) Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 362(9) Julius Lester Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn 371(11) Justin Kaplan The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn 382(23) Peaches Henry More than a Reader's Response: A Letter to ``De Ole True Huck'' 405(18) Gerry Brenner On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner's ``Letter to `De Ole True Huck''' 423(12) James Phelan from Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target 435(21) Jonathan Arac Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's ``Masterpiece'' 456(10) Jane Smiley Selling Huck Finn Down the River: A Response to Jane Smiley 466(5) Seymour Chwast The Controversy over Gender and Sexuality: Are Twain's Sexual Politics Progressive, Regressive, or Beside the Point? 471(71) Reformers and Young Maidens: Women and Virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 476(20) Nancy A. Walker Reading Gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 496(13) Myra Jehlen Walker versus Jehlen versus Twain 509(7) Frederick Crews A Response to Frederick Crews 516(3) Martha Woodmansee Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! 519(7) Leslie Fiedler ``Innocent Homosexuality'': The Fiedler Thesis in Retrospect 526(16) Christopher Looby Appendix: Writing about Critical Controversy 542