Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism

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Thirty years ago, in a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute, Tillie Olsen first addressed the problem of silences in literature - paving the way for future explorations of the subject, including her...

Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Published in 1884, Huckberry Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelly Fisher Fishkin suggests...

Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African American Voices

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Mark Train and His Illustrations

By Mark Twain

Lighting out for the territory

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture reveals who Mark Twain really was, how he got to be that way, and what we do with his legacies today. How did this son...

Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

A historical guide to Mark Twain

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A Historical Guide to Mark Twain

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

From Fact to Fiction: Journalism & Imaginative Writing in America: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Concise Anthology of American Literature

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