Teaching nineteenth-century fiction

Author(s)

• Maunder, Andrew
• Phegley, Jennifer

Bibliographic Information

Teaching nineteenth-century fiction

edited by Andrew Maunder and Jennifer Phegley

（Teaching the new English）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

Summary: "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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-246, 247-256) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780230537804

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction
• A.Maunder  & J.Phegley   The Canon: Mapping Writers and Their Works
• J.M.Allan 'Theory' and the Novel
• J.Wolfreys Empire
• P.Brantlinger Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Contexts
• T.Mangum Women's Writing
• T.Schaffer Teaching Genre: The Sensation Novel
• J.Phegley The Short Story: Ghosts and Spectres
• R.Robbins Fiction and the Visual Arts
• R.Pearson Serial Reading
• L.K.Hughes & M.Lund Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights
• T.R.Wright Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century: The Revisionist Novel
• G.Moore Transatlanticism
• S.Alhlberg Primary Sources and the MA Student
• J.Billington Technology and the World Wide Web
• P.Joshi Further Reading Bibliography

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780230537811

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction
• A.Maunder & J.Phegley The Canon: Mapping Writers and Their Works
• J.M.Allan 'Theory' and the Novel
• J.Wolfreys Empire
• P.Brantlinger Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Contexts
• T.Mangum Women's Writing
• T.Schaffer Teaching Genre: The Sensation Novel
• J.Phegley The Short Story: Ghosts and Spectres
• R.Robbins Fiction and the Visual Arts
• R.Pearson Serial Reading
• L.K.Hughes & M.Lund Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights
• T.R.Wright Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century: The Revisionist Novel
• G.Moore Transatlanticism
• S.Alhlberg Primary Sources and the MA Student
• J.Billington Technology and the World Wide Web
• P.Joshi Further Reading Bibliography

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB03196227
• ISBN:
  • 9780230537811
  • 9780230537804
• LCCN: 2009046790
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baginstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 266 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR871
  • DC22 : 823/.809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA80917053