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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 687–717.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Hsuan L. Hsu Hsu's essay argues that the racially differentiated experiences of mobility depicted in Huckleberry Finn are informed by a range of vagrancy laws that restricted access to public spaces. Such legal constraints on mobility were deployed throughout the South and West to control...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 117–152.
Published: 01 March 2000
...-
ral man, figured as an immigrant tramp, illiterate, ‘‘unspeakably pro-
fane perfectly lackingin the refinements of civilization, and, like Pap
Finn,coveredinmud,failsasthene plus ultra of human degenera-
5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 122 of 246...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and fugitive movement that while necessary to also undermines and exceeds that freedom. If Twain’s later novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd’nhead Wilson , allow readers to witness and critique (through the lens of a seemingly stable protagonist) the moral hypocrisies and the tragic (il...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2018
... discussion but also the relationships among illustrators, authors, and editors in this time period. Sonstegard scrutinizes how illustrations in the first periodical publications of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (illustrated by Edward Kemble; 1884) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (illustrated by Louis Loeb...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 667–674.
Published: 01 September 2018
...—the steering oar, sweep, and crib—risks a failure to appreciate the scope and achievement of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Structured as a series of answers to rhetorical questions, its chapters make the case that nautical understanding must go hand in hand with the literary study of this canonical text...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 401–404.
Published: 01 June 2016
... traveled of our major authors, and with his major texts to this day still the most traveled in the American canon. (According to Selina Lai-Henderson, one of the writers reviewed here, Huckleberry Finn [1884] alone exists in ninety Chinese translations.) Accordingly, much recent attention has turned...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 655–659.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Little Women (1868–69); and both My Jim by Nancy Rawles (2005) and Finn by Jon Clinch (2007) alongside Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Rather than merely revising our ideas of the past, literary spinoffs, as Spengler argues, help us reconceptualize the present. After...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 431–440.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the role of figurative language in Twain’s writing and compo-
sition process across the span of his career, shedding new light on texts such
as Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and “No. 44, The Mysterious
Stranger...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 March 2011
... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Announcements
2009 Don D. Walker Prize
Hsuan L. Hsu’s essay “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry
Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December 2009, 687–717) received
the 2009 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 419.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and
his resources for handling them, his hard knocks and his buoyancies. This
focus is admirably managed where one most wants it to be, in a treatment
of Huck Finn that is one of the more comprehensive depictions of Huck...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
Published: 01 June 2015
... that Neo-Confucianism is more similar to Emer-
sonian thought than these other religious traditions.
Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece. By
Andrew Levy. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2015. xxiv, 328 pp. Cloth, $25.00;
e-book, $12.99.
All too often, Huckleberry...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 908–916.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and editor.” Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent: How Biblical Burlesque and Religious Satire Unify Huckleberry Finn. By Doug Aldridge. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2017. vii, 300 pp. Paper, $39.95; e-book available. Where other critics see Huckleberry Finn (1884) as an episodic book with little...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 669–695.
Published: 01 December 2017
... intended to use nonpartisanship as a two-pronged attack against corruption and universal suffrage, Twain’s masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , is in many ways an exploration of the very problems caused by the success of nonpartisanship, by the triumph, we might say, of The Gilded Age...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 899–907.
Published: 01 December 2000
... in the early nineteenth century.
Black, White, & Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream. By Elaine Mensh
and Harry Mensh. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2000. 167 pp. $29.95.
Independent writers...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and the Historiography of Sexuality” (Septem-
ber, 469–95) and Hsuan L. Hsu for “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization
in Huckleberry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December, 687–
717). Members of the judging committee were Mark McGurl, University of
California, Los Angeles (Chair); Michael Moon, Emory...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 672–674.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Huck Finn is modeled on an African American child, to the general credit of Twain. Nel’s book begins with a similar and more skeptical account of Dr. Seuss, arguing that the iconic Cat in the Hat likewise had mixed racial ancestry, modeled in part on an elevator operator named Annie Williams but also...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Williams points out that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) used personal narratives of frontier life and adventure as source material for Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians (1889), a novel that “used frontier exploratory tropes and assessed the role of religion and technology in facilitating...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the expurgated scene in Huckleberry Finn where
Jim recalls a harrowing encounter with a cadaver in a medical school dissect-
ing room. The scene, unpublished until 2001, seems important to Ober’s dis-
cussion, particularly given that the young Clemens had surreptitiously wit-
nessed his own father’s autopsy...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2003
...
Finn and Moby-Dick, for example) vastly expand the contours of Native and
American literary and cultural studies. However, it would perhaps be advan-
Tseng 2003.8.21 09:07
Book Reviews...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 891–894.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the expurgated scene in Huckleberry Finn where
Jim recalls a harrowing encounter with a cadaver in a medical school dissect-
ing room. The scene, unpublished until 2001, seems important to Ober’s dis-
cussion, particularly given that the young Clemens had surreptitiously wit-
nessed his own father’s autopsy...
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