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The adventures of Tom Sawyer : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Mark Twain ; edited by Beverly Lyon Clark.
- Title
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Mark Twain ; edited by Beverly Lyon Clark.
- Author
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Publication
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Clark, Beverly Lyon.
- Description
- viii, 383 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Presents a critical edition of Mark Twain's classic novel, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and includes textual and explanatory notes, background information, profile of the author, and seven critical essays.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition.
- Uniform Title
- A Norton critical edition..
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Fiction
- Adventure fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Humorous fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-383).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The text of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- A note on the text -- Textual variants -- Backgrounds and contexts -- Biographical backgrounds -- [Autobiography] ; Letter to Will Bowen, 6 February 1870 / Mark Twain -- The cave at Hannibal -- Nineteenth-century education -- Miss Clapp's school / Mark Twain -- The old-time school-discipline / Eli M. Rapp -- Nineteenth-century medicine -- Dissection of the dead / John Draper -- [The case against dissection] -- [The page that Becky tore?] -- Fire in a liquid form / K. Patrick Ober -- Social and regional contexts -- Boy culture / E. Anthony Rotundo -- [Mark Twain's Missouri] / Robert Jackson -- Literary contexts -- The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief ; The story of the good little boy who did not prosper / Mark Twain -- From Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters / Stephen Percy [Joseph Cundall] -- Composing the book -- Boy's manuscript / Mark Twain -- Correspondence on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain, William Dean Howells -- [Revisions inspired by Howells] / Bernard DeVoto -- Criticism -- [Review] / [William Dean Howells] -- The composition and the structure of Tom Sawyer / Hamlin L. Hill -- The sanctioned rebel / Judith Fetterley -- Boy books, bad boy books, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Alan Gribben -- Masculinity and the logic of sympathy in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Glenn Hendler -- Why Mark Twain murdered Injun Joe, and will never be indicted / Carter Revard -- "200 rattling pictures" : True Williams and the imagetext of the first American edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Susan R. Gannon -- Mark Twain : a chronology.
- ISBN
- 0393926036 (pbk.)
- 9780393926033 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006047302
- 9780393926033
- OCLC
- 70911207
- SCSB-12377428
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library