Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900
The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes quirky, often passionate writers profoundly disrupts traditional pedagogical assumptions about what constitutes "literature." This book addresses this radically changed educational landscape, offering practical, proven teaching strategies for newly "recovered" writers, both in special topics...
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In recent years, the works of a number of previously obscure British women writers have been incorporated into the curriculum, disrupting traditional pedagogical assumptions about what constitutes "literature." In this volume, 20 contributions from American and European academics offer strategies for teaching these newly recovered writers. They also discuss some of the ways in which covering this material can affect one's academic career in various types of institutions. The volume is not indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1Introduction : teaching British women writers, 1750-19001Ch. 2We can do it! : putting women's texts of work11Ch. 3Teaching a "highly exceptional" text : Krupabai Sattianadhan's Saguna and narratives of empire20Ch. 4Teaching English women's conversionist rhetoric33Ch. 5Eliza Haywood : mainstreaming women writers in the undergraduate survey44Ch. 6The poetry of friendship : connecting the histories of women and Lesbian sexuality in the undergraduate classroom59Ch. 7A subversive urn and a suicidal bridge : strategies for reading across aesthetic difference74Ch. 8Pedagogy and oppositions : teaching non-canonical British women writers at the technical university91Ch. 9Short fiction by women in the Victorian literature survey101Ch. 10"This particular Web" : George Eliot, Emily Eden, and locale in multiplot fiction110Ch. 11Making the student a scholar121Ch. 12Beyond "great crowds" and "minor triumphs" : teaching students to evaluate critical pronouncements127Ch. 13Teaching women playwrights from the British romantic period (1790-1840)140Ch. 14Working within a community of learners : teaching Christian Rossetti at a Christian college150Ch. 15Canon-busting : undergraduate research into Romantic-era women's writing in the corvey collection160Ch. 16Teaching "recovered" Victorian female intellectuals165Ch. 17Everybody learns and everybody teaches : feminist pedagogy and co-editing Mary Ward's Marcella181Ch. 18"Can man be free/and women be a slave?" : teaching eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers in intersecting communities190Ch. 19Who counts? : popularity, modern recovery, and the early nineteenth-century women poet205Ch. 20Changing course(s) at mid- and late career : teaching the lives/teaching the works/teaching the teacher224
