Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Pedagogy

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This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic course design, this volume reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom. A section on genre provides suggestions on approaching individual works and discussing their influence on production of texts. Sections on digital humanities and “out of the classroom” approaches to Victorian literature reflect current practices and developing trends. The concluding section offers three different versions of an “ideal” course, each of which shows how thematic, disciplinary, genre, and technological strands may be woven together in meaningful ways. Professors of introductory literature courses aimed at non-English majors to advanced seminars for majors will find accessible and innovative course ideas supplemented with a variety of versatile teaching materials, including syllabi, assignments, and in-class activities. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Global Victorians (Melissa Shields Jenkins)....Pages 3-18 Learning Through Victorian Garbage: Disgust and Desire in an Interdisciplinary Capstone Course (Tamara Ketabgian)....Pages 19-34 Teaching Dickens by the Numbers: A Case Study of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Julia McCord Chavez, Robert C. Hauhart)....Pages 35-51 Teaching Penny Bloods and Dreadfuls (Rebecca Nesvet)....Pages 53-67 Victorian Fiction and Finance (Joshua Gooch)....Pages 69-82 Teaching Across Disciplines: Victorian Literature and Science (Jessica Kuskey)....Pages 83-97 Using Debate to Help Undergraduate Non-majors Connect with Silas Marner (Elizabeth J. Deis)....Pages 99-110 Getting More Bang for Your Buck: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Gender in a Survey Course (Stacey Floyd)....Pages 111-123 Faith and Doubt in the Nineteenth Century (Michael Claxton)....Pages 125-138 Front Matter ....Pages 139-139 Contextualizing the Novel in the Victorian Literature Classroom (Michelle Allen-Emerson)....Pages 141-153 Teaching Victorian Poetry with Twenty-First-Century Psychology (Todd O. Williams)....Pages 155-166 Teaching the “Forgotten” Genre: Victorian Drama (Julianne Smith)....Pages 167-179 The Past as Persistent Presence: Teaching Victorian Nonfiction (Sara Atwood)....Pages 181-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 “The Office Is One Thing, and Private Life Is Another”: Social Networking with the Victorians (Patrick C. Fleming)....Pages 197-210 Teaching About and Through Computing: Victorian Record Keeping, Data Management, and the Class Edition (Constance Crompton)....Pages 211-225 Virtually London: Literature and Laptops (Joanna Swafford)....Pages 227-239 Front Matter ....Pages 241-241 Dickens and the Public Humanities: A Service-Learning Approach (Diana C. Archibald)....Pages 243-260 Adventures in Living Like a Victorian (Jen Cadwallader)....Pages 261-273 Teaching Neo-Victorian Literature (Louisa Hadley)....Pages 275-287 Front Matter ....Pages 289-289 A Model Victorian Survey Course (Laurence W. Mazzeno)....Pages 291-299 Victorian Visions: Literary Imaginings of Social (In)Justice in the Later Nineteenth Century (Michael Kramp)....Pages 301-314 Ecocritical and Environmental Approaches: Teaching Victorian Poets and Novelists in the Age of the Internet (Ashton Nichols)....Pages 315-328 Back Matter ....Pages 329-342