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.

Autorentext
SOFIA AHLBERG University of Melbourne, Australia JANICE ALLAN Associate Head (Teaching), School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, UK JOSIE BILLINGTON School of English, University of Liverpool, UK PATRICK BRANTLINGER James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus), Indiana University, USA LINDA K. HUGHES Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, USA PRITI JOSHI Associate Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, USA MICHAEL LUND Professor Emeritus of English, Longwood University, Virginia, USA TERESA MANGUM Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa, USA GRACE MOORE University of Melbourne, Australia RUTH ROBBINS Head of the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK TALIA SCHAFFER Associate Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA RICHARD PEARSON Department of English Literature, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland JULIAN WOLFREYS Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Loughborough University, UK TERRY WRIGHT Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University, UK

Inhalt
Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Maunder & J.Phegley The Canon: Mapping Writers and Their Works; J.M.Allan 'Theory' and the Novel; J.Wolfreys Empire; P.Brantlinger Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Contexts; T.Mangum Women's Writing; T.Schaffer Teaching Genre: The Sensation Novel; J.Phegley The Short Story: Ghosts and Spectres; R.Robbins Fiction and the Visual Arts; R.Pearson Serial Reading; L.K.Hughes & M.Lund Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights; T.R.Wright Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century: The Revisionist Novel; G.Moore Transatlanticism; S.Alhlberg Primary Sources and the MA Student; J.Billington Technology and the World Wide Web; P.Joshi Further Reading Bibliography