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Introduction Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948. Excerpt: In 1876 Mark Twain published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and in the same year began what he called “another boys’ book.”. He set little store by the new venture and said that he had undertaken it “more to be at work than anything else.”. His ...
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Through his accessible style, Trilling was able to influence...
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Lionel Trilling, one of America’s foremost literary critics,...
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Oct 5, 2012 · Even T. S. Eliot and Lionel Trilling—the two most vocal proponents of Huck Finn’s iconic status—had to explain it away. And what’s more, they continue, it’s completely unmotivated ...
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN has not always occupied its present high place in the canon of American ... I have in mind essays by Lionel Trilling and T. S. Eliot. 3 Both praise the book, but ...
Huckleberry Finn is politically and socially responsible, according to Twain, pre-cisely because it seeks to destroy and abolish morality.13 That such an interpreta-5 Leo Marx, "Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy, ed. Graff and Phelan 290-305; 301.
Mark Twain's Colloquial Prose Style. Lionel Trilling on "Huckleberry Finn". Described by biographer Mark Krupnick as "the single most important cultural critic in [the 20th] century among American men of letters," Lionel Trilling is best known for his first collection of essays, The Liberal Imagination (1950).
Huckleberry Finn: 1948 By Lionel Trilling I n 1876 Mark Twain published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and in the same year began what he called “an-other boys’ book.” He set little store by the new venture and said that he had undertaken it “more to be at work than anything else.” His heart was not in it—“I like it only toler-
s Mr. Eliot's essay is the introduction to the edition of Huckleberry Finn published by. Chanticleer Press, New York, 1950. Mr. Trilling's is the introduction to an edition of the novel published by Rinehart, New York, 1948, and later reprinted in his The Liberal. Imagination, Viking, New York, iqko.
