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The Historical and Cultural Context of
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finnby Mark Twain
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Historical Context of Huckleberry
FinnSet in pre-Civil War years 40-50 years before 1885
publication Slavery ended, but racism still rampant (Jim Crow Laws)
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Mark Twain underwent moral transformation…
He believed slavery was wrong and white Americans owed black Americans reparations
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19th CENTURY
The Civil WarIndustrial Revolution Extreme contrasts between rich and poor
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Literary and Artistic Movements: REALISM and
REGIONALISM1. Attack upon Romantics and Transcendentalists
pragmatic, democratic, and experimental
Responsibly moral – goal was to report the world with HONESTY
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2.Drew subject matter from “our experience”
Focused on the common, the average, the probable
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3. Character and Setting more important than Plot
(Local Color Movement)
Focused on the norm of daily experience
Dialect, geography, regional manners
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN is a…COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL: moral growth of a comic character in an physically beautiful yet morally repugnant setting
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and a…PICARESQUE NOVEL: follows the
adventures of a roguish hero• episodic: Mississippi River • flight to freedom vs. river flowing toward Deep South (slave territory)
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19th century Americans are self-conscious…
They want to know what their new country looks like, and how the varied races of growing population live and talk
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19th century Firsts…
First mappings of the WestFirst transcontinental railroad
First Photography
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Photography as a social mirror…
The invention ignited an artistic and scientific frenzy…
Best portrait makers could bring out the very human essence of a subject…
The advantages of photography: immediacy, reliable representation, low cost, etc…
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Massive social changes reflected in literature & photography.
1861-65 - Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner: honest photographic record of the Civil War.
Photography, like literary Realism & Regionalism
showed TRUTH.
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“Something new happened in Huck Finn that had never happened in American literature before. It was a book…that served as a Declaration of Independence from the genteel English novel…
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…[It] allowed a different kind of writing to happen: a clean, crisp, no-nonsense, earthly vernacular…it was a book that talked. Huck’s voice, combined with Twain’s satiric genius, changed the shape of fiction in America, and African-American voices had a great deal to do with making it what it was.” - Dr. Shelley Fishkin, 1995
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Photograph Huckleberry FinnComparing VIEWPOINTS OF SLAVERY in…
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"Slave Boy Brought to Waterbury from Bucks Hill by Aunt
Ella Johnson's Second
Husband (Whelan)"Ninth-plate ambrotype, circa 1855
http://www.photographymuseum.com/slaveboyl
g.htmlThe
American Photography Museum, Inc.
#1
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"Our Little Pedlars"
Quarter-plate ambrotype, circa 1855-
1860
http://www.photographymuseum.com/pedl
arslg.htmlThe
American Photography
Museum, Inc.
#2
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W. Queen (Philadelphia),
Publisher or Retailer:"The Darkey's Vanity"
Tinted Albumen Stereograph circa
1860
http://www.photographymuseum.com/vanitylg.html
The American Photography
Museum, Inc.
#3
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Cumberland Landing, Virginia,Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house, May 14, 1862http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/slavpho2.htmlThe American Photography Museum, Inc.
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Unidentified Photographer:Civil War Soldiers with a "Contraband"Albumen carte de visite, circa 1863
http://www.photographymuseum.com/contrabl.htmlThe American Photography Museum, Inc.
#5
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E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (New York),
Publishers:"Bombproof Quarters
of Maj. Strong, at Dutch Gap, 16th N. Y.
Artillery"Albumen Stereograph
circa 1864
http://www.photographymuseum.com/majstrong.html
The American Photography
Museum, Inc.
#6
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Unidentified Photographer: Ten ChildrenCyanotype, circa 1898http://www.photographymuseum.com/cyanokidslg.htmlThe American Photography Museum, Inc.
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Palmer (Tuskegee, Alabama)
Instructor & Three Graduates with Diplomas and Geraniums
Gelatine-Silver Print, circa 1905
http://www.photographymuseum.com/tuskeglg.htmlThe American Photography Museum, Inc.
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Works CitedThe American Photography Museum, Inc. Virtual Exhibit: “The Face of Slavery and Other Early
Images of African Americans.” (2004). http://www.photography-museum.com/faceof.html
Cross, J.M. . “Nineteenth-Century Photography: A Timeline.” The Victorian Web. (2001). http://www.victorianweb.org/photos/chron.html
Reuben, Paul P. “Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century: American Realism - A Brief Introduction.” PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference
Guide - An Ongoing Project.(2003). http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/5intro.html
Rubio, Juan Carlos. (Curator). “Portraits and Landscapes in Nineteenth Century Photography. Private Collections of Madrid.” Fundacion Telefonico. (2001).
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/photoes/efotoxix.html