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Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Online: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series--ON LINE)
Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Online A Student Casebook to Issues Sources and Historical Documents - The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series--ON LINE Author:Claudia Durst Johnson Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry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 hist... more »orical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the student's understanding of the issues raised. It captures the stormy character of the slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy of those conflicts in contemporary society. Among the source materials presented are: memoirs of fugitive slaves, a riverboat gambler, a gunman, and Mississippi Valley settlers; the southern code of honor; contemporary points of view on censorship and race in the novel; rules of dueling; 19th-century pro-slavery arguments; firsthand accounts of slavery; the text of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; opposing views on civil disobedience from such 19th- and 20th-century commentators as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen A. Douglas, and William Sloane Coffin; 19th-century cultural satires; and an interview with a 1990s gang member.« less