Teaching Tainted Lit
Subtitle: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781609383749
Subjects: American literature, study and teaching; American fiction, history and criticism; Popular literature, history and criticism; Literature and society
Description: "Popular American Fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain. The essays in this collection presume that the popular is here to stay and that its instructive implications are not merely noteworthy, but richly nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad variety of issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and the classroom, as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King and Lady Gaga to nineteenth-century dime novels and the 1852 best-seller Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Page [4] of cover.