Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction

by Maunder, Andrew; Phegley, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780230537811
• ISBN10: 0230537812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This new volume in theTeaching the New Englishseries 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.

Author Biography

ANDREW MAUNDER is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His research interests include Victorian and Edwardian fiction, the periodical press and reception histories and he has published artciles in a range of journals including Etudes Anglaises, Trollopiana, and the Victorian Periodicals' Review. He has contributed essays to the New Dictionary of National Biography and to British Women Writers (Greenwood Press, 2000) and is general editor of the series Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction (2004). He is also one of the editors of the jorunal Critical Survey.

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