Teaching Literature

TANYA AGATHOCLEOUS is a graduate student at Rutgers University. Her dissertation investigates cosmopolitan visions of the Victorian city. She has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot and written a biography of George Orwell for Oxford University Press. - ANN DEAN is Assistant Professor of English and Director of College Writing at the University of Southern Maine. She teaches and writes about 18th century Anglo-American writing and cosmopolitan studies.

• 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