1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388147003316

Autore

Dade William

Titolo

Dade, 1681 [[electronic resource] ] : a new almanack, with the forraign account : in which you may behold the state of the year of Christ 1681 : calculated properly for the meridian of London, but it may serve the whole island of Great Brittain : being the first after the bissextile, or leap-year / / compiled by William Dade .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by T.H. for the Company of Stationers, 1681

Descrizione fisica

[40] p. : ill

Soggetti

Almanacs, English

Ephemerides

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In 2 pts. 2nd pt. has special t.p. with imprint: London : Printed by T.N. for the Company of Stationers, 1681.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164893903321

Titolo

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / / editor, R. Kent Rasmussen, editor of Critical Insights: Mark Twain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem Press

Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press

Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2017]

�2017

ISBN

1-68217-123-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 279 pages)

Collana

Critical insights

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

Slavery in literature

Humor in literature

18.06 Anglo-American literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / R. Kent Rasmussen -- "Bessie" or "Becky": Should We Care about Text? / Victor Fischer -- Huck's Reception during Three Centuries / Kevin Mac Donnell -- Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Expelled: Censorship and the Classroom / Alan Gribben -- Huckleberry Finn vs. Uncle Tom's Cabin as Antislavery Novels / Jocelyn A. Chadwick -- Animating the Unsaid: Between the Lines in Huckleberry Finn / Jon Clinch -- "How a body can see and don't see at the same time": Reading Humor in Huckleberry Finn / Tracy Wuster -- The Reluctant Author: Huck Finn's Metafictional Partnership with Mark Twain / John H. Davis -- Is Huckleberry Finn a Picaresque Novel? / Robert C. Evans -- Identity Switching in Huckleberry Finn / Linda A. Morris -- "Pow-wows of cussing": Profanity and Euphemistic Variants in Huckleberry Finn / Sarah Fredericks -- Why Huck Finn Can't Stand Being Sivilized / Philip Bader -- "Huck Finn, He Hain't Got No Family": Home, Family, and Parenting in Huckleberry Finn / John Bird -- "It's Tom Sawyer!" (No it ain't . . . it's Huck Finn!) / Hugh



H. Davis.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Mark Twain's novel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". A chronology of Twain's life, a complete list of Twain's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.