Teaching laboring-class British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / edited by Kevin Binfield and William J. Christmas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Binfield, Kevin, editor.

Christmas, William J., 1965- editor.

Series:

Options for teaching ; 43.

Options for teaching ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class writings, English--Study and teaching.

Working class writings, English.

Working class writings, English--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 348 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

Contents:

Part I Teaching Genres

Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Georgic p. 27 / Corey E. Andrews

Singing Chambermaids and Walking Gentlemen: Teaching Romantic-Era British Theater p. 34 / David Worrall

Nineteenth-Century Broadside Ballads and the Poetics of Everyday Life p. 43 / Ellen L O'Brien

Teaching the Aesthetic in Working-Class Fiction p. 51 / Margaret A. Loose

Teaching Laboring-Class Autobiographies as Condition-of-England Texts in the Victorian Survey p. 57 / James R. Simmons, Jr.

Urban Mysteries, Chartist Novels, and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Popular Narrative p. 64 / Sara Hackenberg

Part II Teaching Selected Authors and Works

Rubbing Shoulders with Alary Leapor: Class Curricula as Anthologjzation p. 75 / Moyra Haslett

Poem Nascitur, Non Fit: Teaching Ann Yearsley's Life and Works p. 85 / Monica Smith Hart

"'Tis Pity a Genius Should Be So Deprest!": Elizabeth Hands's Verse Satire and the Literary Marketplace p. 93 / Scarlet Bowen

Teaching Christian Milne p. 100 / Kathryn Meehan Quinto

Teaching the Politics and Poetics of Land through William Cobbett's Rural Rides p. 107 / Aruna Krishnamurthy

Teaching James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner p. 117 / Fiona Wilson

John Clare's "Rich Disorder" p. 126 / Timothy Ziegenhagen

Teaching Chartist Poetry p. 134 / Mike Sanders

Part III Pedagogical Strategies

Teaching Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poetry Using a Labor Studies Approach p. 143 / Anne Milne

The Laboring-Class Atlantic p. 150 / Bridget M. Keegan

Using Romantic-Era Laboring-Class Poets to Explore Cultural Archaeology p. 159 / Stephen C. Behrendt

Thomas Holcroft and Literary Ventriloquism p. 168 / Miriam L. Wallace

Teaching the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic War Era through Sailor Memoir p. 177 / Emily M. Brewer

Teaching the Theme of Leisure p. 186 / Theresa Adams

Wandering in Fact and Fiction: Wordsworth's Wanderer and Christopher Thomson p. 194 / Cassandra Falke

Poetry of the People? Working-Class Poetry and Victorian Periodicals p. 202 / Alexis Easley

Teaching Chartist Fiction with Canonical Texts: Pairing Thomas Wheeler's Sunshine and Shadow with Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton p. 211 / Stacey Floyd

Teaching Laboring-Class Writers as Victorian p. 219 / Meagan Timney

Life Study in and beyond Mary Peach Collier's Poetic Effusions p. 227 / Kevin Binfield

Part IV Types of Courses

"The Poet's Rapture, and the Peasant's Care": A Service-Learning Course on Eighteenth-Century British Laboring-Class Verse p. 239 / Steven Epley

"All Bedlam, or Parnassus, Is Let Out": Teaching Laboring-Class Poets in the Eighteenth-Century Survey Course p. 246 / William J. Christmas

The Working Lives of Eighteenth - Century Authors of African Descent p. 255 / Vincent Carretta

"That Agricultural Poetry Class": Teaching Rural Laboring-Class Poets, 1750-1850 p. 265 / Misty Beck

Writing Rural: Agrarian and Georgic Transformations in Smith, Wordsworth, Bloomfield, and Clare p. 274 / Gary Harrison

Teaching the Poetry of Victorian Working-Class Women p. 282 / Florence S. Boos

Annotations for Two Major Databases p. 297

Supplementary Resources for Some Essays in This Volume p. 301

Paintings p. 313

Recordings and Sheet Music p. 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603293471

1603293477

1603293485

9781603293488

OCLC:

1037027944