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Approaches to Teaching Scott's Waverley Novels

Beschreibung

Scott's Waverley novels, as his fiction is collectively known, are increasingly popular in the classroom, where they fit into courses that explore topics from Victorianism and nationalism to the rise of the publishing industry and the cult of the author. The essays in this volume are designed to help teachers negotiate the intriguing features of the Waverley novels.

Autor

Evan Gottlieb teaches English at Oregon State University. He is author of Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832, as well as articles in such journals as Studies in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He is at work on a book project on Romanticism and globalization. Ian Duncan is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens and Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh, as well as a coeditor of Scott, Scotland, and Romantic Nationalism (a special issue of Studies in Romanticism) and Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. He has edited Scott's Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, James Hogg's Winter Evening Tales and Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and (with Elizabeth Bohls) Travel Writing, 1700-1830: An Anthology. He is working on a book on the novel and "the science of man" from 1740 to 1870.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781603290364
• ISBN-10: 1603290362
• Artikelnr.: 27879743