Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom

by James S. Leonard

How does one teach Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This collection of essays edited by James S. Leonard offers practical classroom methods for instructors dealing with the racism, the casual violence, and the role of women, as well as with structural and thematic discrepancies in the works of Mark Twain.
The essays in Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom reaffirm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322978
• ISBN13: 9780822322979
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.9"