{"product_id":"making-mark-twain-work-in-the-classroom-9780822322979","title":"Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James S. Leonard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does one teach Mark Twain's \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eMaking Mark Twain Work in the Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e reaffirm the importance of Twain in the American literature curriculum from high school through graduate study. Addressing slavery and race, gender, class, religion, language and ebonics, Americanism, and textual issues of interest to instructors and their students, the contributors offer guidance derived from their own demographically diverse classroom experiences. Although some essays focus on such works as \u003ci\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e, most discuss the hotly debated \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, viewed alternately in this volume as a comic masterpiece or as evidence of Twain's growing pessimism-but always as an effective teaching tool.\u003cbr\u003eBy placing Twain's work within the context of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, \u003ci\u003eMaking Mark Twain Work in the Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e will interest all instructors of American literature. It will also provoke debate among Americanists and those concerned with issues of race, class, and gender as they are represented in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph A. Alvarez, Lawrence I. Berkove, Anthony J. Berret, S.J., Wesley Britton, Louis J. Budd, James E. Caron, Everett Carter, Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua, Pascal Covici Jr., Beverly R. David, Victor Doyno, Dennis W. Eddings, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, S. D. Kapoor, Michael J. Kiskis, James S. Leonard, Victoria Thorpe Miller, Stan Poole, Tom Reigstad, David E. E. Sloane, David Tomlinson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46896911122583,"sku":"9780822322979","price":3702.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822322979.webp?v=1770360371","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/making-mark-twain-work-in-the-classroom-9780822322979","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}