Huckleberry Finn Bibliography

Huckleberry Finn Books and Journal Articles

Books at SBP (Radel Library)

Title / Author Call Number

The gilded age and later novels / Twain, Mark PS 1302 2002

The annotated Huckleberry Finn: adventures of Huckleberry Finn / PS 1305 A2 H43 2001

Hearn, Michael Patrick (Ed.)

Mark Twain and Huck Finn / Blair, Walter PS 1305 B5

Huck Finn / Twain, Mark PS 1305 H827 1990

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Bloom, Harold (Ed.) PS 1305 M283 1995

Readings on the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn / de Koster, Katie (Ed.) PS 1305 R42 1998

Twentieth cenutry interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a collection of critical essays / Simpson, Claude M. (Ed.) PS 1305 S5

Mark Twain: the complete interviews / Scharnhorst, Gary (Ed.) PS 1331 A2 2006

Mark Twain, an introduction and interpretation / Badanza, Frank PS 1331 B3

Mark Twain: a life / Powers, Ron PS 1331 P67 2005

Mark Twain: the bachelor years: a biography / Sanborn, Margaret PS 1331 S17 1990

Mark Twain, the man and his work / Wagenknecht, Edward Charles PS 1331 W3 1961

On Mark Twain / Budd, Louis J. | Cady, Edwin H. (Ed.) PS 1338 O5 1987

Readings on Mark Twain / de Koster, Katie PS 1338 R43 1996

The Jim dilemma: reading race in Huckleberry Finn / PS 1305 C45 1998

Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn (Ed.)

Journal Articles (available through the Literature Resource Center Database)

Kiskis, Michael J., "Mark Twain and Collaborative Autobiography," in Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, Fall 1996, pp. 27-40. Reprinted in Nonfiction Classics for Students, Vol. 4

Wilson, James D., "'The Invalid's Story,'" in A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Mark Twain, G. K. Hall and Co., 1987, pp. 147-52. Reprinted in Short Stories for Students, Vol. 16.

Kemper, Steven E., "Poe, Twain, and Limburger Cheese," in Mark Twain Journal, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Winter 1981-1982, pp. 13-14. Reprinted in Short Stories for Students, Vol. 16.

Lester, Julius, "Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." In Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, edited by James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, and Thadious M. Davis, pp. 199-207. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Sloane, David E. E., "Huck Acts, an Escape from Sivilization." In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: American Comic Vision, pp. 50-60. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Mason, Ernest D., "Attraction and Repulsion: Huck Finn 'Nigger' Jim, and Black Americans." CLA Journal 33 (September 1989): 36-48. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Hirsh, James, "Samuel Clemens and the Ghost of Shakespeare." Studies in the Novel 24, no. 3 (fall 1992): 251-72. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Smiley, Jane, "Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's 'Masterpiece'." Harper's 292, no. 1748 (January 1996): 61-7. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Park, Clara Claiborne, "The River and the Road: Fashions in Forgiveness." American Scholar 66 (winter 1997): 43-62. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Arac, Jonathan, "Nationalism and Hypercanonization." In Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time pp. 133-153 Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Dawson, Hugh J., "The Ethnicity of Huck Finn--and the Difference It Makes." American Literary Realism: 1870-1910 30, no. 2 (winter 1998): 1-16. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn, "Whah Is de Glory?: The (Un)Reconstructed South." In The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn, pp. 115-35. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Link, Eric Carl, "Huck the Thief." Midwest Quarterly 41, no. 4 (summer 2000): 432-47. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Folks, Jeffrey J., "Twain and the Garden of the World: Cultural Consolidation on the American Frontier." Southern Quarterly 39, no. 3 (spring 2001): 82-95. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Pinsker, Sanford, "Huckleberry Finn and the Problem of Freedom." Virginia Quarterly Review 7, no. 4 (autumn 2001): 642-49. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Bollinger, Laurel, "Say It, Jim: The Morality of Connection in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." College Literature 29, no. 1 (winter 2002): 32-52. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 161.

Kahn, Sholom J., "Epilogue: The Dream of Mark Twain," in Mark Twain's "Mysterious Stranger": A Study of the Manuscript Texts, University of Missouri Press, 1978, pp. 191-99. Reprinted in Short Stories for Students, Vol. 21.

Kime, Wayne R., "Huck among the Indians: Mark Twain and Richard Irving Dodge's The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants." Western American Literature 24, no. 4 (winter 1990): 321-33. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Skandera-Trombley, Laura, "Mark Twain's Cross-Dressing Oeuvre." College Literature 24, no. 2 (June 1997): 82-96. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Quirk, Tom, "The Middle Years, 1874-1890: Literary Respectability and Social Responsibility." In Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction, pp. 56-85. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Messent, Peter, "Carnival in Mark Twain's 'Stirring Times in Austria' and 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.'" Studies in Short Fiction 35, no. 3 (summer 1998): 217-32. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Kruse, Horst H., "Mark Twain and the Other: 'The Esquimau Maiden's Romance' in Context." Essays in Arts and Sciences 27 (October 1998): 71-82. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Twain, Mark, A letter to W. D. Howells, July 21, 1883, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism, Second Edition, edited by Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, E. Hudson Long, and Thomas Cooley, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977, p. 283.

Twain, Mark, A letter to W. D. Howells in Boston, April 8, 1884, in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. II, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1917, pp. 442-43.

Henley, William Ernest, A review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in The Critical Response to Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," edited by Laurie Champion, Greenwood Press, 1991, p. 21.

Skandera-Trombley, Laura, "Mark Twain's Cross-Dressing Oeuvre." College Literature 24, no. 2 (June 1997): 82-96. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Kruse, Horst H., "Mark Twain and the Other: 'The Esquimau Maiden's Romance' in Context." Essays in Arts and Sciences 27 (October 1998): 71-82. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Skandera-Trombley, Laura, "Mark Twain's Cross-Dressing Oeuvre." College Literature 24, no. 2 (June 1997): 82-96. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Kruse, Horst H., "Mark Twain and the Other: 'The Esquimau Maiden's Romance' in Context." Essays in Arts and Sciences 27 (October 1998): 71-82. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 87.

Journal Articles (available through EbscoHost)

Amare, Nicole; Manning, Alan. “Twain's HUCKLEBERRY FINN”. Explicator, Summer2004, Vol. 62 Issue 4, p206-209, 4p.

Kaye, Frances W. “Race and reading: The burden of Huckleberry Finn”. Canadian Review of American Studies, 1999, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p13, 36p.

Anspaugh, Kelly. “`I been there before': Biblical typology and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. ANQ, Oct94, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p219, 5p.