Huck Finn among the Critics: A Centennial Selection

Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xi, 465 pp, b&w frontis, Introduction by M. Thomas Inge, Background: Mark Twain and His Times by Arthur G. Petit; The Composition of Huckleberry Finn by Hamlin Hill and Walter Blair. Early Response: Reviews by William Ernest Henley, Brander Matthews and Thomas Sergeant Perry; The Arot of Mark Twain by Andrew lang; My Favorite Novelist and His Best Book by Sir Walter Besant; Mark Twain: An Inquiry by William Dean Howells; The Burden of Humor by H. L. Mencken. Modern Criticism: America's First Truly Indigenous Masterpiece by V. S. Prichett; The Greatness of Huckleberry Fin by Lionel Trilling; "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey" by Leslie Fiedler; Mark Twain's Masterpiece by T. S. Eliot; Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn by Leo Marx; Huck and Oliver by W. H. Auden; Bad Novels and Great Books by Joseph Wood Krutch; Remarks on the Sad Initiation of Huckleberry Finn by James M. Cox; Why Huckleberry Finn Is a Great World Novel by Lauriat Lane; The Structure of Huckleberry Finn by Frank Baldanza; Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin as Heroes of Popular Culture by Clauco Cambon; "Tears and Flapdoodle": Point of View and Style in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Janet Holmgren McKay; Huck and the Games of the World by Bruce Michelson; Law and Nature in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Catherine H. Zuckert; Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse by David L. Smith; Appendix: The Pictorial Huck Finn: Mark Twain and His Illustrator, E. W. Kemble by Beverly R. David; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on Film by Perry Frank; A Mark Twon Chronology; An Annotated chicklist of Criticism on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884-1984 by Thomas A. Tenney. First Edition, 1985. Price clipped. Two small closed tears to bottom edge spine dj with lightly faded spine of same, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine..