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"A wonderful tool. This volume offers a wealth of resources from a range of critical perspectives."--Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Who's Teaching Mark Twain, and How? / James S. Leonard
I. Discovering Mark Twain
From Innocence to Death: An Approach to Teaching Twain / Dennis W. Eddings
Race and Mark Twain / S. D. Kapoor
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in Today's Classroom / Victoria Thorpe Miller
Parody and Satire as Explorations of Culture in
The Innocents Abroad / James E. Caron
Connecticut Yankee: Twain's Other Masterpiece / Lawrence I. Berkove
A Connecticut Yankee in the Postmodern Classroom / James S. Leonard
Opportunity Keeps Knocking: Mark Twain Scholarship for the Classroom / Louis J. Budd
II. Rediscovering
Huckleberry Finn "Huckleberry Fun" / Everett Carter
Huck's Helplessness: A Reader's Response to Stupefied Humanity / David E. E. Sloane
Teaching:
Huckleberry Finn: The Uses of the Last Twelve Chapters / Pascal Covici Jr.
"Blame de pint! I reck'n I knows what I knows": Ebonics, Jim, and New Approaches to Understanding
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua
The Challenge of Teaching
Huckleberry Finn / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Huck Finn's Library: Reading, Writing, and Intertextuality / Anthony J. Berret, S. J.
The Relationship of Kemble's Illustrations to Mark Twain's Text: Using Pictures to Teach
Huck Finn / Beverly R. David
Using Audiovisual Media to Teach
Huckleberry Finn / Wesley Britton
High-Tech Huck: Teaching Undergraduates by Traditional Methods and with Computers / David Tomlinson
III. Playing to the Audience
The Innocents Abroad Travels to Freshman Composition / Tom Reigstad
On Teaching
Huck in the Sophomore Survey / Victor Doyno
To Justify the Ways of Twain to Students: Teaching
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Culturally Diverse Students in an Urban Southern Community College / Joseph A. Alvarez
"Pretty Ornery Preaching":
Huckleberry Finn in the Church-Related College / Stan Poole
"When I read this book as a child . . . the ugliness was pushed aside": Adult Students Read and Respond to
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Michael J. Kiskis
Contributors
Index
About the author
James S. Leonard is Professor of English at The Citadel. He is coauthor of The Fluent Mundo: Wallace Stevens and the Structure of Reality and coeditor of Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, also published by Duke University Press.
