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Article: Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom, edited by James s. Leonard. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. xi, 318 pp. $17.95 paper
WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for the Overland Monthly expressed delight that it was not as funny a book as one might expect from Twain, that its chief virtue was that it contained "more of autobiographic value than of deliberate humor" (Budd, p. 252). This assessment may very well have gratified Twain, coming as it did from
a magazine published in Twain's former stomping grounds in the West, San Francisco. Appearing seven years after the publication of ...