Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction [Paperback]

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.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 BibliographySOFIA AHLBERG University of Melbourne, AustraliaJANICE ALLAN Associate Head (Teaching), School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, UKJOSIE BILLINGTON School of English, University of Liverpool, UKPATRICK BRANTLINGER James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus), Indiana University, USALINDA K. HUGHES Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, USAPRITI JOSHI Associate Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, USAMICHAEL LUND Professor Emeritus of English, Longwood University, Virginia, USATERESA MANGUM Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa, USAGRACE MOORE University of Melbourne, AustraliaRUTH ROBBINS Head of the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKTALIA SCHAFFER Associate Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USARICHARD PEARSON Department of English Literature, National Universitl.