Mallioux, ''The Bad-Boy Boom'' (pp. 43-50)

"...Clemens also thanked the library committee for it's "generous action" in having "condemned and excommunicated" his book, thus doubling it's sales." (Mailloux 48)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/10/power_of_the_people.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/10/humor_and_edge.html

Huck's intimidated?

"By the 1880s the dime novel had evolved to include urban as well as western settings, detective heroes as well as cowboys." (Mallioux)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/10/el_266_mallioux_the_bad-boy_bo.html

Look Within Yourself For A Solution

"Of course, concern over lower-glass delinquents continued and was simply compounded by fears that the sons of respectable, bourgeois families were also threatened by corrupting models of bad boy behavior in and out of texts" (Mailloux 45)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/10/those_bad_bad_boys.html

"I cannot subscribe to the extreme censure passed upon this volume, which is no coarser than Mark Twain’s books usually are, while it has a vein of deep morality beneath its exterior of falsehood and vice, that will redeem it in the eyes of mature persons." (pg: 49)

"Every publisher of the vile sensational papers for boys is shaping the career of the youth of our country. They glorify crime; the hero of each story is a boy who has escaped the restraints of home and entered on a life of crime."
~page 44

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/10/bad_boys.html

"They Glorify Crime"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GladysMares/2009/10/same_problem_new_century.html

"This at of censorship received national publicity and inspired debate throughout the country." (Mailloux 48)

The link didn't go through on my comment so here it is again.

"This at of censorship received national publicity and inspired debate throughout the country." (Mailloux 48)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/10/that_was_then_this_is_now.html

"When cheap reprints of popular classics began to flood the market in the late 1870s, the dime novel needed more than its low price to attract readers" (44).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/11/its_all_about_the_money.html

"By the 1880's the dime novel had evolved to include urban as well as western settings, detective heroes as well as cowboys. In the westerns still being written, "blood and thunder" increased dramatically, while the detective fictions presented descriptions of crime quite disturbing to parents of boy readers." (p.43)

Twain's novel, "deals with a series of adventures of a very low grade of morality...It is also very irreverent...The whole book is of a class that is more profitable for the slums than it is for respectable people, and it is trash of the veriest sort" (Mailloux 48).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/12/bad_boy_boom.html