《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》是19世纪末20世纪初最伟大的文学著作之一，其作者是美国著名作家马克·吐温。这是一部现实主义浪漫主义抒情交相辉映的作品，描写了两个少年为了追求自由生活所经历的惊险离奇的故事。本书对其进行深层的解读。通过对作品的精细阅读，作者认为，小说蕴涵丰富，不仅表现了多重主题，可以有多层面的理解，而且可以从多角度进行解剖，其艺术含量之高，非一般作品可比拟。

Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has generated heated controversy. One of the most frequently banned books in the history of literature, it raises issues of race relations, censorship, civil disobedience, and adolescent group psychology as relevant today as they were in the 1880s. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings,and commentary captures the stormy character of the slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy of past conflicts in contemporary society. These materials will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the student's understanding of the issues raised.

Introduction

1 Literary Analysis: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and

Forms of Enslavement

2 Unfit for Children: Censorship and Race

FROM:

John H. Wallace, The Case Against Huck Finn, in

Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry

Finn (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992)

Julius Lester, Morality and Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn, in Satire or Evasion?

David L. Smith, Huck, Jim, and Racial Discourse, in

Satire or Evasion?

Kenney J. Williams, Mark Twain's Racial Ambiguity,

in Satire or Evasion?

Kenneth B. Noble, One Hateful Word (New York

Times, March 19, 1995)

William Raspberry, We Give This Slur Its Power

(Washington Post, April 11, 1995)

3 Mark Twain's Mississippi Valley

FROM:

David E Dyer, Autobiography and Reminiscences (St.

Louis: William Harvey Miner Co., 1922)

Tom Horn, The Life of Tom Horn (Denver: Southern

Book Co., 1904)

James W. Evans and A. Wendell Keith, Autobiography

of Samuel S. Hildebrand (Jefferson City, Mo.: State

Times, 1870)

Harriet Martineau, Retrospect of Western Travel

(London: Saunders and Otley, 1838)

Frederick Gerstaecker, Wild Sports in the Far West

(Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co., 1859)

George H. Devol, Forty Years a Gambler on the

Mississippi (New York: George H. Devol, 1892)

4 Slavery, Its Legacy, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

FROM:

Thomas Roderick Dew, 'Abolition of Negro Slavery,

in The Pro-Slavery Argument (Philadelphia: Lippincott,

Grambo, and Co., 1853)

James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English

Abolitionist, in The Pro-Slavery Argument

W. G. Brownlow, Ought American Slavery to Be

Perpetuated? (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.,

1858)

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Douglass (Boston: Boston Anti-Slavery Society, 1845)

Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

(Boston: Published for the Author, 1861)

David P. Dyer, Autobiography and Reminiscences (St.

Louis: William Harvey Miner Co., 1922)

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Fugitive Slave Law, in

The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New

York: William H. Wise and Co., 1875)

William Hosmer, The Higher Law (Auburn, Mass.:

Derby and Miller, 1852)

Stephen A. Douglas, Measures of Adjustment

(Chicago, October 23, 1850)

Orville Dewey, The Laws of Human Progress and

Modern Reforms (New York: C. S. Francis and Co.,

1852)

Harriet Jacobs, The Fugitive Slave Law, in Incidents

in the Life of a Slave Girl (Boston: Published for the

Author, 1861)

William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Civil Disobedience, the

Draft and the War (Christianity and Crisis, February

5, 1968)

George Washington Cable, The Freedman's Case in

Equity and the Convict Lease System, in The Silent

South (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885)

5 The Code of Honor

FROM:

Thomas Nelson Page, The Old South (New York:

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892)

John Lyde Wilson, The Code of Honor (Charleston,

S.C.: James Phinney, 1858)

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (New York:

Harper and Brothers, 1911)

Larry Watts, The Code of the Streets: An Interview

with a Former Gang Member (1995)

Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets (Atlantic

Monthly, May 1994)

6 Cultural Satire: Shakespeare, Home Decor, Sentimental Verse

FROM:

George C.D. Odell, Annals of the New York Stage

(New York: Columbia University Press, 1931)

Parodies of the Works of English and American

Authors (London: Reeves and Turner, 1885)

J. R. Pugh, The Best Room (The Decorator and

Furnisher, October 1888)

Julia A. Moore, The Sentimental Song Book (New

York: Platt and Peck Co., 1879; rpt. 1912)

Max Adeler, Out of the Hurly-Burly (Philadelphia:

P. Garrett and Co., 1879)

Index