Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period

by Behrendt, Stephen C.; Linkin, Harriet Kramer

• ISBN13: 9780873527446
• ISBN10: 0873527445
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

The contributors to this volume have undertaken, in the words of the editors, "the liberating and invigorating task of redrawing the landscape of the Romantic poetry," and in twenty-six essays they share their experiences and their innovations.
Like other volumes in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this collection is divided into two parts. The first, "Materials," surveys the available primary sources, including recent editions and anthologies, journals, and online databases, and examines the burgeoning criticism. The essays in the second part, "Approaches," discuss teaching the poets individually and alongside other writers; exploring their work from various critical and theoretical perspectives; presenting the authors in classroom contexts such as first-year and survey courses; and using archival and technological resources - from nineteenth-century literary annuals to hypertext programs - to enhance classroom discussion.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Introduction: An Overview of the Survey	p. 1
Materials
Approaches
Introduction	p. 23
Something Evermore About to Be: Teaching and Textbases	p. 25
How Their Audiences Knew Them: Forgotten Media and the Circulation of Poetry by Women	p. 32
"The Choicest Gifts of Genius": Working with and Teaching the Kohler Collection	p. 40
"In Tangled Mazes Wrought": Hypertext and Teaching Romantic Women Poets	p. 45
Teaching Alien Aesthetics: The Difficulty of Difference in the Classroom	p. 51
Strategies for Replacing the Six-Poet Course	p. 58
Distinguishing the Poetess from the Female Poet	p. 63
Romantic Women's Poetry as Social Movement	p. 69
Women Poets and Colonial Discourse: Teaching More and Yearsley on the Slave Trade	p. 75
Understanding Cultural Contexts: The Politics of Needlework in Taylor, Barbauld, Lamb, and Wordsworth	p. 80
Transatlantic Cultures of Sensibility: Teaching Gender and Aesthetics through the Prospect	p. 85
Staging History: Teaching Romantic Intersections of Drama, History, and Gender	p. 89
The Aesthetics of Loss: Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants and Beachy Head	p. 97
Hemans's "The Widow of Crescentius": Beauty, Sublimity, and the Woman Hero	p. 101
Teaching the Poetry of Mary Tighe: Psyche, Beauty, and the Romantic Object	p. 106
Men, Women, and "Fame": Teaching Felicia Hemans	p. 110
Charlotte Smith's Lessons	p. 121
Anna Seward, the Swan of Lichfield: Reading Louisa	p. 129
Joanna Baillie's Poetic Aesthetic: Passion and "the Plain Order of Things"	p. 135
The Milkmaid's Voice: Ann Yearsley and the Romantic Notion of the Poet	p. 141
Teaching with Annotated Editions	p. 148
Introducing Felicia Hemans in the First-Year Course	p. 153
The Appeal of the Domestic in the First-Year Course: Susanna Blamire	p. 157
Gendering Subjectivity: Women Romantics in a Poetry Survey Course	p. 161
Justification Strategies in the Writings of Joanna Southcott: Teaching Radical Women Poets in Conservative Institutions	p. 165
Sight, Sound, and Sense: L. E. L.'s Multimedia Productions	p. 170
Notes on Contributors	p. 175
Survey Participants	p. 179
Works Cited	p. 181
Index	p. 203
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