Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Andrew Maunder, Jennifer Phegley

   Pages 1-16

3. The Canon: Mapping Writers and Their Works

   • Janice M. Allan

   Pages 17-29

4. “Theory” and the Novel

   • Julian Wolfreys

   Pages 30-45

5. Empire

   • Patrick Brantlinger

   Pages 46-59

6. Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Contexts

   • Teresa Mangum

   Pages 60-74

7. Women’s Writing

   • Talia Schaffer

   Pages 75-90

8. Teaching Genre: The Sensation Novel

   • Jennifer Phegley

   Pages 91-108

9. The Short Story: Ghosts and Spectres

   • Ruth Robbins

   Pages 109-130

10. Fiction and the Visual Arts

    • Richard Pearson

    Pages 131-147

11. Serial Reading

    • Linda K. Hughes, Michael Lund

    Pages 148-167

12. Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights

    • Andrew Maunder, Jennifer Phegley

    Pages 168-182

13. Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century: The Revisionist Novel

    • Grace Moore

    Pages 183-195

14. Transatlanticism

    • Sofia Ahlberg

    Pages 196-209

15. Primary Sources and the MA Student

    • Josie Billington

    Pages 210-222

16. Technology and the World Wide Web

    • Priti Joshi

    Pages 223-241

17. Back Matter

    Pages 242-266

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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.

• fiction
• film adaptation
• teaching
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Hertfordshire, UK

  Andrew Maunder

• University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

  Jennifer Phegley

SOFIA AHLBERG University of Melbourne, Australia JANICE ALLAN Associate Head (Teaching), School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, UK JOSIE BILLINGTON School of English, University of Liverpool, UK PATRICK BRANTLINGER James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus), Indiana University, USA LINDA K. HUGHES Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, USA PRITI JOSHI Associate Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, USA MICHAEL LUND Professor Emeritus of English, Longwood University, Virginia, USA TERESA MANGUM Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa, USA GRACE MOORE University of Melbourne, Australia RUTH ROBBINS Head of the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK TALIA SCHAFFER Associate Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA RICHARD PEARSON Department of English Literature, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland JULIAN WOLFREYS Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Loughborough University, UK TERRY WRIGHT Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University, UK

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