One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture : Centennial Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0826204570
- ISBN-13
- 9780826204578
- Category
- Fiction / Classics
- Pages
- 428
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press
- Authors
- Robert Sattelmeyer, Joseph Donald Crowley
Description
Twenty-five essays written by a group of scholars which reassesses the status of Twain's Huckleberry Finn in American literature and in contemporary American culture, reevaluating past scholarship and exploring new directions. A biography of the book's first hundred years (in 1985).
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