Description
Book SynopsisFrom its first appearance onward,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been both praised and condemned, enshrined as one of the world’s great novels and banned from libraries and classrooms. This new edition is designed to enable modern readers to explore the sources of its greatness, and also to take a fresh, open-minded look at the source of the current controversy about its place in the canon: its representation of race and slavery.
Based on the first American edition of 1885, this Broadview Edition includes all 174 original illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Appendices include contemporary reviews, passages deleted from the original manuscript, advertisements for the book, and a range of materials, from newspaper articles to minstrel show scripts to contemporary fiction, showing how race and slavery were depicted in the larger culture at the time.
Trade Review“Broadview’s new Adventures of Huckleberry Finn answers the need for an edition of America’s most popular canonical novel that provides readers—and most especially student readers at all levels—with the critical tools essential to serious inquiry. The text is reliable and beautifully produced; Stephen Railton’s introduction is copious, well informed, and critically suggestive; and the several appendices, featuring a wide selection of contextual materials, nicely anticipate readers’ needs.” — Forrest Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz
“This welcome new edition brings beautifully to life Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Mark Twain conceived it. Along with the excellent critical introduction and notes, the abundant contextual materials offer a superb recreation of the historical and cultural context in which the novel was written and read.” — Eric J. Sundquist, Johns Hopkins University
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain: A Brief Chronology
- A Note on the Text
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Appendix A: Related Mark Twain Texts
- Appendix B: Contemporary Representations of Slavery and Race
- Appendix C: Illustrating Huckleberry Finn
- Appendix D: Selling Huckleberry Finn
- Appendix E: Reception of Huckleberry Finn
- Appendix F: Freedom versus Fate
- Select Bibliography
