Moore, Remy, & Fortune

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Jim Cullen wrote:
>I think Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) wrote progressive novels. Huckleberry
>Finn, for one, certainly reads like a progressive novel to me. Most of the
>criticisms I've heard are nit-pickings about his use of the world "n-word"
>and Huck's relationship with the escaped slave Jim, but they key is that in
>the end Huck turns his back on his upbringing and refuses to turn Jim in,
>which was revolutionary for the time.

If _Huck Finn_ had been written + published before the Civil War, it would
have been revolutionary as Jim C says. However, given the timing of its
publication, I think that to say it was revolutionary is an overstatement.

Yoshie