ISBN: 9780230537811    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback Language: English

This collection examines what is taught in nineteenth-century fiction courses in the light of the constantly changing canon; indicates how key critical approaches can be taught effectively through nineteenth-century fiction; and discusses the relationship between the literary text and the literary, cultural, and historical contexts surrounding it, and its importance for students. These essays offer a chronology of nineteenth-century fiction writers and texts together with an exploration of issues relating to text selection and course design. Also included are sample syllabuses, the inclusion of which is intended to give a brief snapshot of how nineteenth-century literature courses are currently being organised in different institutions across the world.
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ANDREW MAUNDER is Head of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has also worked for the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre. He is the author of Bram Stoker (2006) and, more recently (with Graham Law) Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life (2008). JENNIFER PHEGLEY is associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. She is the author of Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation (2004) and co-editor of Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (2005). She is writing a book on Victorian courtship and marriage and working on a collection of essays on transatlantic sensationalism.
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