LMC Guide: Huckleberry Finn
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This guide lists selected resources for library criticism of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

REFERENCE BOOKS

  • Contemporary Authors (Ref PN 466.C6) 135 : 82-91
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (Ref PS 21 .D5) 11 : 526-555; 12 : 71-94
  • Novels for Students (Ref PN 3385.N68) 1 : 1-21
  • Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Ref PN 771 .T86)

    6:
    454-7, 459-61, 463-70, 473-6, 478, 480, 482-5; 12 : 427-9, 431, 434-7, 439-45, 448, 451, 454; 19 : 351-69, 372-6, 378-88, 391; 36: 352, 354-5, 358-63, 366, 369, 372, 375, 379, 381-7, 392; 48: 334, 336, 339, 341-9, 351-2, 356, 359, 361; 59: 168, 173-7, 181-9, 196, 201-3, 208-10; 161: 208-351
  • LeMaster, J. R., Wilson, James D., Hamric, Christie Graves, eds. The Mark Twain Encyclopedia . New York : Garland Publishing Co., 1993. (Ref PS 1330 .M37 1993)

BOOKS

  • Bloom, Harold. Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Modern Critical Interpretations. New York : Chelsea House, 1986. (PS 1305 .M28 1986)
  • Budd, Louis J., ed. New Essays on "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" . Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985. (PS 1305 .N48 1985)
  • DeKoster, Katie, ed. Readings on Mark Twain . San Diego , CA.: Greenhaven Press, 1996.
    (PS 1338 .R43 1996)
  • Egan, Michael. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: race, class and society . London : Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press, 1977. (PS 1305 .E35)
  • Gerber, John C. Mark Twain . Boston : Twain Publishers, 1988. (PS 1338 .G47 1988)
  • Inge, M. Thomas, ed. Huck Finn Among the Critics: a centennial selection . Frederick , MD : University Publications of America , 1985. (PS 1305 .H83 1985)
  • Johnson, Claudia. Understanding "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press, 1996. (PS 1305 .J64 1996)
  • Miller, Robert Keith. Mark Twain . New York : F. Ungar Publishing Co., 1983. (PS 1338 .M5 1983)
  • Simpson, Claude M., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; a collection of critical essays . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968. (PS 1305 .S5)

E-BOOKS

  • Dempsey, Terrell. Searching for Jim Slavery in Sam Clemens's World . Columbia : University of Missouri , c2003 e-brary (PS 1342 .S58 D46 2003eb)
  • Sloane, David E. E. Student Companion to Mark Twain . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press, 2001 e-brary
    (PS 1338 .S56 2001eb)

PERIODICALS

Selected full-text articles (database(s) in brackets after the citation). There are many others for this novel.

  • Alberti, John. "The Nigger Huck: Race, Identity and the Teaching of 'Huckleberry Finn'." College English . 57:8 (1995): 919-37. [JSTOR]
  • Anderson, Douglas. "Starting Over in 'Huckleberry Finn'." Raritan . 24:2 (2004): 141-58 [Literature Online-LION]
  • Kaufmann, David. "Satanic Deceit in the Ending of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'." Studies in the Novel . 19:1 (1987): 66-78 [Masterfile Premier]
  • Link, Eric Carl. "Huck the Thief." The Midwest Quarterly . 41:4 (2000): 432 [ Literature Resource Center ]
  • Scott, Kevin Michael. "There's More Honor: Reinterpreting Tom and the Evasion in 'Huckleberry Finn'." Studies in the Novel . 37:2 (2005): 187-207. [Academic Search Premier]
  • Sloan, Karen. "Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'." The Explicator . 63:3 (2005) 159(6). [General OneFile]

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