TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Sender:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:20:32 -0700
Reply-To:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:
MIME-Version:
1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
8bit
In-Reply-To:
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
From:
"Miller, Jeffrey W" <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (11 lines)
In response to David Fears: as a matter of fact, Livy did read HF in
manuscript (see Ron Powers 488).  That the offending term remains
suggests that she was not offended by it nor did she expect other folks
to be offended by it.  Early critics of HF were more likely to be
offended by their perception of the novel's moral relativity, its attack
on Christianity, and its bad grammar than its use of contemporary (and
more or less accepted) racial terminology.

Jeff Miller
Gonzaga University

ATOM RSS1 RSS2