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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
... a similar charge against Twain’s treatment of Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,notingthat Twain allows Jim’s emerging humanity to dissolve in darky humor at irregular intervals throughout the novel.12 In fact...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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
.... Krupat and LaLonde certainly provide fresh and nuanced insight into Native American literature. Their readings of the way Native authors sculpt language and reform generic convention (the quest narratives in Huckleberry...
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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 (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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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 673–689.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of his work and others that use his life to critique the work. Sarah Ann Wilder also addresses the power of essay col- lections that allow a multiplicity of Emerson identities, as well as the move toward releasing authoritative editions of his texts. Refiguring ‘‘Huckleberry Finn By Carl. F. Wieck...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
... source but rather created on the spot. The nineteenth century presents many examples of texts that intentionally deviate from established usages to achieve particular effects. A familiar example of this deviation is Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (1885), with its use of distinct orthographies for Huck’s...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2011
... on his religion, yet scholars have not given the topic an extended examination. Berkove and Csicsila fill this lacuna in the archive by providing a systematic study of Twain’s beliefs in Roughing It, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, among other...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Sawyer (1876), A Tramp Abroad (1880), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889). Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post–Civil War South...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 658–665.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of literary criticism, when an editor brandished a double-barreled shotgun in his face. Aside from this literal instance, Twain’s works were also—and continue to be—metaphorically “under fire,” from the campaign to ban Huckleberry Finn (1884) to the southern uproar over Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894). The goal...