Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction - (Teaching the New English) by A Maunder & J Phegley (Paperback)

About the Book

"This book offers practical approaches to some of the key issues and challenges involved in teaching nineteenth-century fiction at the university level, and includes annotated case studies from courses, discussions of instances of useful practice in teaching and a helpful chronology nineteenth-century writers and texts. This new volume in the Teaching the New English series looks at how a core area of the English degree curriculum--Victorian fiction--can be taught, and issues facing lecturers and students in the field today. The book has a pedagogical slant, though chapters will also be useful for students of Vitorian fiction as an overview of current debate"--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

This book brings together the experiences of Anglo-American teachers and discusses some of the challenges which face teachers of nineteenth-century fiction, suggesting practical ways in which these might start to be overcome by considering the constantly changing canon, issues related to course design and the possibilities offered by film and ICT.

About the Author

SOFIA AHLBERG University of Melbourne, Australia JANICE ALLAN Associate Head (Teaching), School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, UK JOSIE BILLINGTON School of English, University of Liverpool, UK PATRICK BRANTLINGER James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus), Indiana University, USA LINDA K. HUGHES Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, USA PRITI JOSHI Associate Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, USA MICHAEL LUND Professor Emeritus of English, Longwood University, Virginia, USA TERESA MANGUM Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa, USA GRACE MOORE University of Melbourne, Australia RUTH ROBBINS Head of the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK TALIA SCHAFFER Associate Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA RICHARD PEARSON Department of English Literature, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland JULIAN WOLFREYS Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Loughborough University, UK TERRY WRIGHT Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University, UK