Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• The Canon: Mapping Writers and Their Works
• âÇ TheoryâÇÖ and the Novel
• Empire
• Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Contexts
• WomenâÇÖs Writing
• Teaching Genre: The Sensation Novel
• The Short Story: Ghosts and Spectres
• Fiction and the Visual Arts
• Serial Reading
• Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights
• Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century: The Revisionist Novel
• Transatlanticism
• Primary Sources and the MA Student
• Technology and the World Wide Web
• Further Reading
• Bibliography