Especially noteworthy are Twain's "Miss Clapp's School."his seldom-seen satiric piece on school exercises that foreshadows a similarly satiric scene in the novel. Patrick Ober's "Fire in a Liquid Form." a discussion of tile popular Perry Davis's Pain Killer and other nineteenth-centurv nostrums.

This Norton Critical Edition of Twain's classic tale is based on the 187e first American edition.widelv recognized as the most authoritative text published in the authc·r's lifetime. The novel is accompanied by a preface, original illustrations, explanatory"annotations.

"Backgrounds and Sources includes both standard materials and lesser-known works together they provide a rich context for fhe Adentures of Ton Saw: Materials are organized thematicallv and center on biographical backgrounds, nineteenthcentury education, nineteenth-century medicine, social and regional contexts, literary contexts, and the compos·uon of the novel. Especially noteworthy are Twain's "Miss Clapp's School."his seldom-seen satiric piece on school exercises that foreshadows a similarly satiric scene in the novel, and K. Patrick Ober's "Fire in a Liquid Form." a discussion of tile popular Perry Davis's Pain Killer and other nineteenth-centurv nostrums.

"Criticism" collects seven thought-provoking essays on the novel. Contributors include William Dean How'ells. Hamlin L.Hill. Judith Fetterley, Alan Gribben. Glenn Hendler. Carter Rcvard. and Susan R. Cannon.

Preface

The Text of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 A NOTE ON THE TEXT

 TEXTUAL VARIANTS

Backgrounds and Contexts

 BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUNDS

 Mark Twain·[Autobiography]

 Mark Twain·Letter to Will Bowen, e February 1870

 The Cave at Hannibal

 NINETEENTH-CENTURY EDUCATION

 Mark Twain·Miss Clapp's School

 Eli M. Rapp·The Old-Time School-Discipline

 NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDICINE

 John Draper·Dissection of the Dead

 [The Case against Dissection]

 [The Page That Becky Tore?]

 K. Patrick Ober·Fire in a Liquid Form

 SOCIAL AND REGIONAL CONTEXTS

 E. Anthony Rotundo·Boy Culture

 Robert Jackson·[Mark Twain's Missouri]

 LITERARY CONTEXTS

 Mark Twain·The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who

 ·Didn't Come to Grief

 Mark Twain·The Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did

 Not Prosper

 Stephen Percy [Joseph Cundall]·From Robin Hood and

 His Merry Foresters

 COMPOSING THE BOOK

 Mark Twain·Boy's Manuscript

 Mark Twain and William Dean Howells

 Correspondence on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 Bernard DeVoto·[Revisions Inspired by Howells]

Criticism

 [William Dean Howells]·[Review]

 Hamlin L. Hill·The Composition and the Structure of

 Tom Sawyer

 Judith Fetterley·The Sanctioned Rebel

 Alan Gribben·Boy Books, Bad Boy Books, and The

 Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 Glenn Hendler·Masculinity and the Logic of Sympathy

 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 Carter Revard·Why Mark Twain Murdered Injun Joe

 and Will Never Be Indicted

 Susan R. Gannon·"200 Rattling Pictures": True

 Williams and the Imagetext of the First American Edition

 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography