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Huck Finn 1-4

Huck Finn 1-4. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn…All American writing comes from that.” E.H. Twain’s “firsts”. First American writer to write successfully in the vernacular. (What’s that?) - Huck, Jim, and others – crude and undignified

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Huck Finn 1-4

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  1. Huck Finn 1-4 “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn…All American writing comes from that.” E.H.

  2. Twain’s “firsts” • First American writer to write successfully in the vernacular. (What’s that?) - Huck, Jim, and others – crude and undignified • First to successfully infuse comedy – Dinner at the Widow’s; Later, lecture on temperance but the lecturers “don’t make enough money to get drunk.”

  3. Realism and the death of Romanticism • Romanticism – Washington Irving, Poe, Hawthorne – nostalgia, idealism, beauty in nature, individualism • Civil War • Realism – adherence to truth; “slice of life,” accuracy and honesty, 1st lines of Huck Finn (you’ll be trying to write like this) • Some are offended – Louisa May Alcott demands that it be banned (1st of many attempts) – No problem for Twain; he advertised its banning and sales went up 3000%

  4. Chapters 1-4Tell some stories! • What do you think? (always my first question!) • Suppertime • Out at night and the cave • Ambuscade and the A-rabs • Judge Thatcher and the money • The hairball • Pap

  5. Emerging themesHow are these introduced? • Sivilization • Religion • Race/ class

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