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Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom. (Book Reviews).(Review)
From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 20001222
Author:Bird, John
Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom, edited by James S. Leonard. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 318 pp. $49.95 cloth. $17.95 paper.
ANYONE WHO TEACHES MARK TWAIN, and especially his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, will want to read this collection of essays, edited by James S. Leonard. In fact, it becomes one of two indispensable resources for any teacher of the novel--the other being the volume Leonard co-edited with Thomas A. Tenney and Thadious M. Davis, Satire or Evasion: Black Perspectives on "Huckleberry Finn" (Duke University Press, 1992). Since Mark ...
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