My apologies to the group for an odd question.  The opening passage of
Chapter 19 of Huckleberry Finn is famous: "The first thing to see,
looking away over the water . . ."  The passage ends with "dead fish
laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank . . . "

Can anyone tell me of academic critics who have written about this
passage in the context of Realism?

Thanks very much.

Gary Henrickson