Revisiting the Circus with Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Pleasure and Mine

Barbara Hochman

doi:10.1632/pmla.2018.133.3.647

Revisiting the Circus with Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Pleasure and Mine

Barbara Hochman

Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics

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Abstract

With the exception of occasional quiet moments on the raft, the circus scene in the adventures of huckleberry finn is arguably the only episode of the novel where Huck is absorbed by an experience that gives him pleasure:

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	647-653
Number of pages	7
Journal	PMLA
Volume	133
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.3.647
State	Published - 1 May 2018

Keywords

Reading
re-reading
interpretive conventions
Slavery
Race
Racism
critique
editing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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