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Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series
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Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn has generated heated controversy. One of the most
frequently banned books in the history of literature, it raises
issues of race relations, censorship, civil disobedience, and
adolescent group psychology as relevant today as they were in the
1880s. This collection of historical documents, collateral
readings, and commentary captures the stormy character of the
slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy
of past conflicts in contemporary society. Among the source
materials presented are: memoirs of fugitive slaves, a river
gambler, a gunman, and Mississippi Valley settlers; the Southern
Code of Honor; rules of dueling; and an interview with a 1990s gang
member. These materials will promote interdisciplinary study of the
novel and enrich the student's understanding of the issues raised.
The work begins with a literary analysis of the novel's structure,
language, and major themes and examines its censorship history,
including recent cases linked to questions of race and language. A
chapter on censorship and race offers a variety of opposing
contemporary views on these issues as depicted in the novel. The
memoirs in the chapter Mark Twain's Mississippi Valley illuminate
the novel's pastoral view of nature in conflict with a violent
civilization resting on the institution of slavery and shaped by
the genteel code of honor. Slavery, Its Legacy, and Huck Finn
features 19th-century pro-slavery arguments, firsthand accounts of
slavery, the text of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and opposing views on civil
disobedience from such 19th- and 20th-century Americans as Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Stephen A. Douglas, and William Sloane Coffin.
Nineteenth-century commentators on the Southern Code of Honor and
Twain's sentimental cultural satire directly relate the novel to
the social and cultural milieu in which it was written. Each
chapter closes with study questions, student project ideas, and
sources for further reading on the topic. This is an ideal
companion for teacher use and student research in English and
American history courses.
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