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Mark Twain's The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Updated ed. - New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007. - vii, 248 p. ; 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical interpretations .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.

The realism of Huckleberry Finn / Life without father : the role of the paternal in the opening chapters of Huckleberry Finn / Huck and Jim on the Mississippi : going with the flow? / Huck, Jim, and the "black-and-white" fallacy / Huckleberry Finn and the problem of freedom / Deadpan Huck, or, what's funny about interpretation / Who shot Tom Sawyer? / Huckleberry Finn and Twain's democratic art of writing / The "raftsmen's passage," Huck's crisis of whiteness, and Huckleberry Finn in U.S. literary history / Reinventing the world and reinventing the self in Huck Finn / "That night we had our show" : Twain and audience / Floating capital : the trouble with whiteness on Twain's Mississippi / Tom Quirk -- Harry G. Segal -- Carl F. Wieck -- James S. Leonard -- Sanford Pinsker -- Sacvan Bercovitch -- Jeffrey Steinbrink -- Mary P. Nichols -- Peter Schmidt -- Bennett Kravitz -- Todd Giles -- Stephanie Le Menager.

ISBN: 079109426X (hardcover) 9780791094266 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2006036858

Subjects--Personal Names:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Boys in literature.
Race relations in literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mississippi River--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PS1305 / .M28 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.4