Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period

by Behrendt, Stephen C.; Linkin, Harriet Kramer

• ISBN13: 9780873527439
• ISBN10: 0873527437
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	ix	(2)
Preface to the Volume	xi
Introduction: An Overview of the Survey	1	(8)
Stephen C. Behrendt
PART ONE: MATERIALS	9	(14)
Harriet Kramer Linkin
Editions	9	(2)
The Instructor's Library	11	(8)
Reference Works	11	(2)
Critical Works	13	(6)
Recommended Reading for Students	19	(4)
PART TWO: APPROACHES	23	(152)
Introduction	23	(2)
Stephen C. Behrendt
General Issues: Approaching the Texts	25	(38)
Something Evermore About to Be: Teaching and Textbases	25	(7)
Stuart Curran
How Their Audiences Knew Them: Forgotten Media and the Circulation of Poetry by Women	32	(8)
Paula R. Feldman
"The Choicest Gifts of Genius": Working with and Teaching the Kohler Collection	40	(5)
Jane King
Kari Lokke
"In Tangled Mazes Wrought": Hypertext and Teaching Romantic Women Poets	45	(6)
Joel Haefner
Teaching Alien Aesthetics: The Difficulty of Difference in the Classroom	51	(7)
Scott Simpkins
Strategies for Replacing the Six-Poet Course	58	(5)
Judith Pascoe
Literature and History: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives	63	(47)
Distinguishing the Poetess from the Female Poet	63	(6)
Anne K. Mellor
Romantic Women's Poetry as Social Movement	69	(6)
Mary A. Favret
Women Poets and Colonial Discourse: Teaching More and Yearsley on the Slave Trade	75	(5)
Alan Richardson
Understanding Cultural Contexts: The Politics of Needlework in Taylor, Barbauld, Lamb, and Wordsworth	80	(5)
Carol Shiner Wilson
Transatlantic Cultures of Sensibility: Teaching Gender and Aesthetics through the Prospect	85	(4)
Julie Ellison
Staging History: Teaching Romantic Intersections of Drama, History, and Gender	89	(8)
Greg Kucich
The Aesthetics of Loss: Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants and Beachy Head	97	(4)
Kay K. Cook
Hemans's "The Widow of Crescentius": Beauty, Sublimity, and the Woman Hero	101	(5)
Nanora Sweet
Teaching the Poetry of Mary Tighe: Psyche, Beauty, and the Romantic Object	106	(4)
Harriet Kramer Linkin
Teaching Individual Poets	110	(38)
Men, Women, and "Fame": Teaching Felicia Hemans	110	(11)
Susan J. Wolfson
Charlotte Smith's Lessons	121	(8)
Sarah M. Zimmerman
Anna Seward, the Swan of Lichfield: Reading Louisa	129	(6)
Elizabeth Fay
Joanna Baillie's Poetic Aesthetic: Passion and "the Plain Order of Things"	135	(6)
Catherine B. Burroughs
The Milkmaid's Voice: Ann Yearsley and the Romantic Notion of the Poet	141	(7)
Madeleine Kahn
Specific Course Contexts and Strategies	148	(27)
Teaching with Annotated Editions	148	(5)
Stephen C. Behrendt
Introducing Felicia Hemans in the First-Year Course	153	(4)
Deborah Kennedy
The Appeal of the Domestic in the First-Year Course: Susanna Blamire	157	(4)
Becky Lewis
Gendering Subjectivity: Women Romantics in a Poetry Survey Course	161	(4)
Donelle R. Ruwe
Justification Strategies in the Writings of Joanna Southcott: Teaching Radical Women Poets in Conservative Institutions	165	(5)
Kevin Binfield
Sight, Sound, and Sense: L. E. L.'s Multimedia Productions	170	(5)
Glenn T. Dibert-Himes
Notes on Contributors	175	(4)
Survey Participants	179	(2)
Works Cited	181	(22)
Index	203