IN HUCK FINN’S AMERICA: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster), Butler University professor Andrew Levy examines America’s cultural landscape in the mid-1880s, when the book was published, and takes a close look at Twain and the factors that influenced his writing (minstrelsy and fatherhood, to name two). Levy comes …
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