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Title:

Mark Twain's The adventures of Tom Sawyer / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

121 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Twain, Mark,--1835-1910.--Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Adventure stories, American--History and criticism.
Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)
Boys in literature.
Mississippi River--In literature.
Race relations in literature.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-112) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Henry Nash Smith on Tom Sawyer, inadequate hero -- James M. Cox on play, pleasure, and showing off in the novel -- Judith Fetterley on Tom as a local antidote to boredom -- Lee Clark Mitchell on appearance and voice in the novel -- E.L. Doctorow on the child reader and the adult reader -- Albert E. Stone offers some general remarks -- Michael J. Kiskis reconsiders Twain's values -- John Bird examines Twain's double narrator strategy -- Harold K. Bush Jr. on attitudes toward religion and the village church -- Roy Blount Jr. on Twain as political commentator -- Works by Mark Twain -- Annotated bibliography.

Summary:

Presents a collection of critical essays on the novel that analyze its structure, characters, narrator, and themes.

Series:

Bloom's guides

ISBN:

161753000X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781617530005 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2011000966

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)