Teaching Literature

CHARLES ALTIERI Professor of Literature, University of California at Berkeley SUZY ANGER Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland MICHELE BIRNBAUM Associate Professor of English and African American Studies and Director of Women's Studies, University of Puget Sound GLEN BURGER Associate Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York SUSAN JAYE DAUER Professor of English, Valencia Community College, Florida PHILIP DAVIS Professor of Literature, University of Liverpool JILLANA ENTEEN Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, Northwestern University NANCY HENRY Associate Professor of English, SUNY Binghampton RICHARD E.MILLER Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Writing Program at Rutgers University STEVEN KRUGER Professor of English, Queen's College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York GEORGE LEVINE Kenneth Burke Professor of English and the Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers University JOHN O'BRIEN Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia ROB POPE Professor of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University CAROLYN WILLIAMS Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University.

• Foreword; G. Levine Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A. Dean & T. Agathocleous PART I : FIELDS OF STUDY I; G. Burger & S. F.Kruger Grub Street : The Literary and the Literatory in Eighteenth-Century Britain; J.O'Brien Teaching the Victorians in a Postmodern Stage; N.Henry Towards Desegregating Syllabi: Teaching American Literary Realism & Racial Uplift Fiction; M.Birnbaum Teaching Philosophically; S.Anger Taking Lyrics Literally: Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture; C. Alteri PART II: TEACHING RITUALS OLD AND NEW Re-writing Texts, Re-constructing the Subject: Work & Play on the Critical-Creative Interface; R.Pope Schooling Misery: The Ominous Threat and the Eminent Promise of the Popular Reader; R.Miller The River and the Chestnut Tree: When Students Already Know the Answers; A.Dean The Place of the Implicit in Literary Discovery: Designing a Part-Time M.A.; P.Davis From Teaching in Class to Teaching Online: Preserving Community and Communication; S.J.Dauer 'Subjest:RE: I absolutely *HATED* Acebe's Things Fall Apart ' : Teaching World Literature on the World Wide Web; T.Agathocleous & J.Enteen APPENDICES Appendix I : Web Resources for Teaching Literature Appendix II : Bibliography of Resources on Teaching Literature Index

' Teaching English Literature: A Handbook marks a significant contribution to this crucial enterprise. It attempts to move between the theoretical and the practical, from the actual work of the classroom to its theoretical underpinnings...While these essays do give quite practical advice, provide syllabi and reading lists, and sample exercises, these are not mere 'how-to' essays, but confrontations with our most intractable critical problems... demonstrating the intellectual richness of a genre that desperately needs development: the literature of the teaching of literature.' - Excerpt from foreword, George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English, Rutgers, USA