{"product_id":"critical-response-to-mark-twains-huckleberry-finn","title":"Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn","description":"\u003cp\u003eProclaimed by H.L. Mencken as one of the great masterpieces of the world and by Ernest Hemingway as the source of all modern American literature, \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e remains firmly established in both the American and world literary canons as a classic work of literature. Yet it continues to have its critical detractors and still arouses the kind of impassioned controversy that banned it from the Concord, Massachusetts, Public Library on publication as trashy and vicious. \u003ci\u003eThe Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e contains newspaper articles, book reviews, and scholarly essays spanning the period from the early response in the 1880s, through the centennial celebration, to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection reflects the major literary trends and issues of response to \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, such as the persistent attempts to ban the book, the literary criticism concerning the book's ending, and the many thematic interpretations. Among the essayists included are literary figures such as T.S. Eliot and Twain specialist scholars such as Walter Blair, Leo Marx, and James Cox. The text of an \u003ci\u003eABC-TV Nightline News Special\u003c\/i\u003e on the centennial, \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn: Literature or Racist Trash\u003c\/i\u003e is printed. Editor Champion provides an introductory overview on the range and issues of critical response, a feature on the various adaptations of Huckleberry Finn, and a bibliography of additional scholarship. Of interest to any scholar or researcher of Mark Twain, the collection would be valuable to teachers and students reading \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e at any level from high school upward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54219396677976,"sku":"9780313275753","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/critical-response-to-mark-twains-huckleberry-finn","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}