The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based, with typesetting errors corrected, on the first United States edition (1876), the most authoritative of the editions published in Mark Twain's lifetime. The backgrounds and contexts section provides students with the source materials cited by critic[...]
The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for childre[...]
Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illu[...]