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Fresh Networks: Science, Literature, Feminism, And Cultural Studies, Randall Knoper Dec 2007

Fresh Networks: Science, Literature, Feminism, And Cultural Studies, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

No abstract provided.


Literature For Social Change: From Realism To Modernism, Randall Knoper Dec 2007

Literature For Social Change: From Realism To Modernism, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

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Mark Twain And Nation, Randall Knoper Dec 2004

Mark Twain And Nation, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

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Walt Whitman And New Biographical Criticism, Randall Knoper Dec 2002

Walt Whitman And New Biographical Criticism, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

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American Studies And Studies Of America, Randall Knoper Dec 1996

American Studies And Studies Of America, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

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"Away From Home And Amongst Strangers": Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, And Huckleberry Finn", Randall Knoper Dec 1988

"Away From Home And Amongst Strangers": Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, And Huckleberry Finn", Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

Despite Mark Twain's situating the story “forty to fifty years ago” and in a rural river valley, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn closely engaged daily dilemmas and concerns of a Northern, urban, middle-class audience. As Carolyn Porter has argued, the familiar comprehension of American fiction as fantasies of escape from society and history, as authorial efforts to light out for the territory, needs to be dislodged by a sensitivity to such writings as acute responses to their immediate context – a developing industrial and capitalist society and culture. Although Huck's world may appear cut off from the landscape and society of …