at Montgomery and edits the Mark Twain Journal.
Selected Relevant Print and Digital Works
Arac, Jonathan. “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” in The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture. Ed. Franco Moretti. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
____________. Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
Beidler, Peter G. “The Raft Episode in Huckleberry Finn,” Modern Fiction Studies 14 (Spring 1968): 11–20.
Black, Ronald J. “The Psychological Necessity of the Evasion Sequence in Huckleberry Finn,” CEA Critic 52 (Summer 1990): 35–44.
Blair, Walter. Mark Twain & Huck Finn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.
Bray, Robert. “Tom Sawyer Once and For All,” Review 3 (1981): 75–93.
Budd, Louis J. “The Recomposition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Missouri Review 10, no. 1 (1987): 113–129.
___________. “The Southward Currents Under Huck Finn’s Raft,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 46 (1949): 222–237.
Carey-Webb, Allen. “Racism and Huckleberry Finn: Censorship, Dialogue, and Change,” English Journal 82 (November 1993): 22–34.
Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn. “Ebonics, Jim, and New Approaches to Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom. Ed. James S. Leonard. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. 164–181.
____________. “Huck Finn: Icon or Idol—Yet a Necessary Read,” Mark Twain Annual 3 (2005): 37–40.
___________. The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
Companion to Mark Twain. Eds. Peter Messsent and Louis J. Budd. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Critical Essays on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Macmillan, 1993.
Csicsila, Joseph. Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Dempsey, Terrell. Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemens’s World. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Doyno, Victor A. Beginning to Write Huck Finn: Essays in Genetic Criticism, in Huck Finn: The Complete Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Manuscript Teaching and Research Digital Edition. CD-ROM. Ed. Victor A. Doyno et al. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, 2003.
______________. Writing “Huck Finn”: Mark Twain’s Creative Process. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Fetterley, Judith. “Disenchantment: Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn,” PMLA 87 (January 1972): 69–74.
____________. “The Sanctioned Rebel,” Studies in the Novel 3 (Fall 1971): 293–304.
Fischer, Victor. “Huck Finn Reviewed: The Reception of Huckleberry Finn in the United States, 1885–1897,” American Literary Realism 16 (Spring 1983): 1–57.
Fulton, Joe B. Mark Twain’s Ethical Realism: The Aesthetics of Race, Class, and Gender. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
___________. The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Gardner, Richard M. “Huck Finn’s Ending: The Intimacy and Disappointment of Tourism,” Journal of Narrative Technique 24 (Winter 1994): 55–68.
Gribben, Alan. “Boy Books, Bad Boy Books, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Ed. Beverly Lyon Clark. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2007.
_________. “Foreword,” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Big Read, Alabama Edition. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2009: 9–17.
___________. “How Tom Sawyer Played Robin Hood ‘by the Book,’” English Language Notes 13 (March 1976): 201–204.
___________. “‘I Did Wish Tom Sawyer Was There’: Boy-Book Elements in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn,” in One Hundred Years of “Huckleberry Finn”: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture, ed. Robert Sattelmeyer and J. Donald Crowley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985: 149–170.
___________. “‘If I’d a Knowed What a Trouble It Was to Quote a Book’: Literary References in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn,” in Huck Finn: The Complete Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Manuscript Teaching and Research Digital Edition. CD-ROM. Ed. Victor A. Doyno et al. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, 2003: 1–9.
___________. “Manipulating a Genre: Huckleberry Finn as Boy Book,” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 5 (Winter 1988): 15–21.
Hansen, Chadwick. “The Character of Jim and the Ending of Huckleberry Finn,” Massachusetts Review 5 (Autumn 1963): 45–66.
Hill, Hamlin. “The Composition and Structure of Tom Sawyer,” American Literature 32 (January 1961): 379–392.
Hill, Richard. “Overreaching: Critical Agenda and the Ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” in Mark Twain Among the Scholars: Reconsidering
Contemporary Twain Criticism. Ed. Richard Hill and Jim McWilliams. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 2002. Pp. 67–90.
Howard, Douglas L. “Silencing Huck Finn,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 August 2004, C1, C4.
Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Autobiography. New York: Hill and Wang, cop. 1940; repr. 1993.
Kiskis, Michael J. “Critical Humbug: Samuel Clemens’ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain Annual 3 (2005): 13–22.
Leonard, James S. “Racial Objections to Huckleberry Finn,” Essays in Arts and Sciences 30 (2001): 77–82.
___________, Thomas A. Tenney, and Thadious M. Davis, ed. Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.
Loving, Jerome. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Lynn, Kenneth S. “Welcome Back from the Raft, Huck, Honey!” in The Air-Line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing about America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pp. 40–49.
Manierre, William R. “On Keeping the Raftsmen’s Passage in Huckleberry Finn,” English Language Notes 6 (December 1968): 118–122.
Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Ed. J. R. LeMaster and James D. Wilson. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. Repr. as The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark
