More recently, Jon Clinch gave us the novel Finn (2007), which examines in full the life of one of American literature’s most odious specimens, Huck Finn’s Pap. If anything, he’s even worse when given more space. Then there is the cottage industry that seems determined to cover every aspect of all things Austen, including giving minor characters more room to run amok. This trend may be one of the first for which the twenty-first century will need to apologize.
