The adventures of Tom Sawyer : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /

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.

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Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Other Authors: Clark, Beverly Lyon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Series:Norton critical edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-383). 
505 0 |a 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. 
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