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Index Abolition Movement: analogy to Cold War, 114-15, 131-32; Elijah Lovejoy murdered, 42; emergence of Garrisonian , 42; Howells on, 95, 97; in Clemens family, 49-50; in Hannibal, MO, 47-49; in Missouri, 46-47; revisionisthistory and, 114-15; Wendell on, 94. See also Slavery in United States Accuracy: as basis for critical argument, 26-27, 77. See also Realism Action: contrasting models in HF and Uncle Toms Cabin, 102-5; Eliot on, 103; Fiedler on, 35; in Flaubert, 177, 179; in HF and Jacobs, 46; in HF undermined by ending, 35, 129, 151; Marx on, 163; problem of African American agency, 103-5; Said and, 206; Trilling cities Dewey on, 129, 151 Adams, Charles Francis: on Stowe, 94 Adams, J. Donald (New York Times), 125-27 Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. See"All right, then, I'll go to hell"; Chapter 19; Chatper 31; Editions; Ending; Hypercanonization ; Language; Jim; Pedagogic Issues; Racial Issues; Self; Raftmen Episode; and names of individual critics, novelists, and scholars African Americans: agency of, 11-12, 103-5; American language and, 18586 ; Black English, 186-93; challenge HF, 19-21,205-6; in Civil War, 1035 ; July Fourth and, 55-58; migration to North, 109-10; opposed to "whole community," 39; relation to US government , 199-200; stereotypes of, 24, 194; struggle for civil rights of, 21, 61-62,110-11,199-201. See also Civil Rights Movement; Slavery in United States Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, The Story ofa Bad Boy, 57 All in the Family, 33 "All right, then, I'll go to hell" (HF ch. 31): quoted,6, 17, 18, 33, 5253 ,72,74,86, 121, 138, 140, 215; antiStalinism and, 124; as emblematic of America, 18; greatest moment in American literature, 17; irony of, 33, 35; pedagogy for, 86; as rejection of conformity, 140. See also Chapter 31 Moral Crisis (HF) Allegorization, 137-38, 148, 154, 179 America: Ellison on, 185, 194-201; Fishkin redefines, 184; identified with Huck and HF, vii, 3, 14,36,77,81, 87-88,112,139,184,212,217; logic of, 141; Mississippi River and, 21011 ; MT as Uncle Sam,S; MTon, 18182 ; patriotism, 214; vernacular authenticates , 160-62. See also National Narrative; Nationalism; "Quintessentially American," HF as 241 242 Index American studies: cultural studies and, 165-66; institutionalized, 155; nationalizes literary narrative, 148; seeks uniformities, 182 Anderson, Sherwood: admired MT, 6, 144; Trilling on, 119-21; vernacular and,155 Anthologies of American Literature: Harper, 6; Heath, 7; Norton, 71-72 Arendt, Hannah: The Origins ofTotalitarianism , 113 Arnold, Matthew: critical premises of, ix, 80-81; Ellison and, 202; genteel tradition and, 172, 174; Trilling and, 129 Arvin, Newton: on MT as figure, 6 Atlantic Monthly: Howells and, 172; on Reconstruction, 103-4; publishes MT,5 Ayers, Edward (historian), 28, 80 Bakhtin, Mikhail: 89; and HF, 52-54, 61; Fenimore Cooper and, 151-52; Marx on, 156; vernacular realism and, 37-38 Baldwin, James: 11, 96; "Everybody's Protest Novel," 25, 89, 90-92, 93, 123; Smiley ignores, 88 Bancroft, George: national narrative of, 134, 135 Baugh, John: on Black English, 193 Baym, Nina, 88 Beaver, Harold: on HF, 28 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 214 Big River (musical based on HF): 14,68, 71,139 Black English: as creole, 207-9; Fishkin on, 186-94; geography of, 189-90; grammatical features, 191-93; Harrison on "Negro English," 186, 18990 ; "specimen negroisms," 189 Black Power Movement, 20-21, 28, 31, 201-2 Blair, Walter: 40, 70, 126; hypercanonization and, ix, 7; Mark Twain and Huck Finn, 7-8. Blankenship, Ben: model for Huck, 47-48 Blankenship, Tom: model for Huck, 47 Bourget, Paul, 101, 180-82 Bourne, Randolph, 214 Boy's Book: HF as, 6, 107 Bradbury, Malcolm: on HF, 28 Bradley, David: on HF, 83-85 Bridgman, Richard: on style, 176, 177, 187 Brooks, Van Wyck: 24, 126, 171; America and, 18, 41; contrasts MT and James, 136-37; frontier and, 41; on figure of "Pike," 40; The Ordeal ofMark Twain 5, 31, 136; The Pilgrimage ofHenry James, 136; Trilling and,19 Brown v. Board ofEducation, 21, 25, 44 Buck, Paul H. (historian), 58, 100 Budd, Louis J.: on HF, 75-77 Bunker, Archie, 33 Cable, George Washington: analyzes racism, 4; Century and, 173; critic of South, 75; "The Freedman's Case in Equity," 173; The Grandissimes, 39, 75, 149,212; national narrative and, 149, 212; on "community," 39; on nigger, 79-80 Canby, Henry Seidel: on HF, 92 Canon. See Hypercanonization Carkeet, David: on dialect, 83 Century Magazine: Cable in...