Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Alan Gribben
Independent Publisher 29, v [May 2011], as well as CBS’s “60 Minutes” segment devoted to the NewSouth Edition that aired on March 20, 2011.) However, the fact of the matter is that literally dozens of other editions are available (including several published by NewSouth Books) for those readers who prefer Twain’s original phrasing. Those standard editions will always exist. Even better, Twain’s holograph manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is now viewable in a CD issued in 2003 by the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.
This NewSouth Edition of Huckleberry Finn is emphatically not intended for academic scholars. Those individuals should consult instead the magisterial edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2003) issued in The Works of Mark Twain series by the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley. Scholars can also turn to Michael Patrick Hearn’s meticulous and resourceful edition, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (2001).
Dr. Alan Gribben co-founded the Mark Twain Circle of America, compiled Mark Twain’s Library: A Reconstruction, and recently co-edited Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader. Gribben has written numerous essays about Mark Twain’s life and image. He teaches on the English faculty of Auburn University 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.
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.
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.
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, 2007: 9–17.
____________. “Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer Go Back to School,” Independent Publisher 29, v (May 2011). http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page1439
____________. “‘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, 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: 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: 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 Twain. New York, London: Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Mensh, Elaine and Harry Mensh. “Black, White, and Huckleberry