Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-19-508214-2
Elaborating on a thesis that made news last summer, Fishkin, professor of American Studies at the University of Texas, convincingly argues that Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was influenced by African American voices. Mixing historical...
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-510531-5
Certain literary scholars reach a point in their careers when they earn enough distinction in their field to write something other than literary criticism. Fishkin, lifelong Twain scholar, is just such a scholar. In her previous volume, Was Huck...
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Rutgers Univ., $34.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8135-7597-1
America’s literary landscape proves both vast and interconnected in Stanford professor Fishkin’s (Lighting Out for the Territory) newest book, which shines a light on the relationships between American authors and the places where they live and work.
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Yale Univ, $28 (456p) ISBN 978-0-300-26832-4
Mark Twain used the character of Jim from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to push back against racist myths of the Reconstruction era, according to this astute study. Fishkin (From Fact to Fiction), an English professor at Stanford University,...
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