Teaching nineteenth century fiction This book offers practical approaches to some of the key issues and challenges involved in teaching nineteenth century fiction at the university level and includes annotated case studies from courses discussions of instances of useful practice in teaching and a helpful chronology nineteenth century writers and texts. This new volume in the Teaching the New English series looks at how a core area of the English degree curriculum Victorian fiction can be taught and issues facing lecturers and students in the field today. The book has a pedagogical slant though chapters will also be useful for students of Vitorian fiction as an overview of current debate Provided by publisher Machine generated contents note: 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 * Womens 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