Yes, there was a VERY good article along this line--Hugh J. Dawson's "The Ethnicity of Huck Finn--and the Difference It Makes"--published in ALR 30, ii (1998): 1-16. As Dawson explains, Huck's Irish surname tapped into a prevailing view of Irish-Americans as "given over to drunkenness, violence, and lewdness." Dawson looks at the other names in the novel, too. Hope this helps. Alan Gribben Auburn University Montgomery