Teaching Romanticism

STEPHEN C. BEHRENDT George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USASALLY BUSHELL Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of The Wordsworth Centre, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UK BRYCCHAN CAREY Reader in English Literature, Kingston University, UKSUE CHAPLIN Senior Lecturer in English, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKSTEVE CLARK Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, JapanTHOMAS C. CROCHUNIS Assistant Professor of English, Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, USAJOHN GOODRIDGE Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University, UKHARRIET KRAMER LINKIN Professor of English Literature, New Mexico State University, USAMURRAY PITTOCK Bradley Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK MASASHI SUZUKI Professor of English, Kyoto University, JapanSOPHIE THOMAS Associate Professor of English, Ryerson University, Toronto, CanadaSARAH WOOTTON Lecturer in English Studies, Durham University, UK

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Preface Notes on the Contributors Chronology Introduction; D.Higgins  & S.Ruston PART I: THE CHANGING CANON Scottish, Irish and Welsh Romanticism;  M.Pittock Romantic Theatre; T.C.Crochunis Labouring-Class Poetry; J.Goodridge European Romanticism; D.Higgins Gender and Sexuality; S.Ruston Slavery, Empire, Race; B.Carey PART II: APPROACHES TO TEACHING ROMANTICISM Teaching Romanticism and Visual Culture; S.Thomas Teaching Wordsworth in the Lakes: The Literary Field Trip; S.Bushell Teaching Romanticism with ICT; S.C.Behrendt Close Reading Romanticism; S.Wootton Theorising Romanticism; S.Chaplin Postgraduate Study of Romanticism in the UK, US, and Canada: Posting and Positing a Twenty-First Century Romanticism; H.K.Linkin Teaching Romanticism in Japan; S.Clark  & M.Suzuki Guide to Further Reading

'Teaching Romanticism is intelligently divided into thematic essays ('new approaches') and case studies in teaching practice. It is most impressive as a compendium of pedagogical experience and constitutes an invaluable source of ideas for anyone faced with the prospect of developing a new module on British Romantic period literature. What emerges from the editors' overview, and from the volume as a whole, is an optimistic, research-led teaching culture, which has benefited from the variousness and curiosity of historicism, and which is open to considerations of gender, class, nationality, marginalised writers and cultures, and interdisciplinarity...' - Anthony Howe, Birmingham City University, British Association for Romantic Studies