Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reading, Pedagogy, and Tainted Lit
  • Janet G. Casey; Nineteenth-Century Popular Texts and Canon Considerations; "You Will Observe . . .": Letting Lippard Teach
  • Melissa Gniadek; "Canons of Nineteenth-Century American Literature": How to Use Literature Circles to Teach Popular, Underrepresented, and Canonical Literary Traditions
  • Randi Lynn Tanglen; Gender, Romance, and Resisting Readers; "One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck
  • Kathleen M. Therrien.
  • Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom
  • Antonia LosanoRace, Region, and Genre in Popular Texts; Chick Lit and Southern Studies
  • Jolene Hubbs; "A Right to Be Hostile": Black Cultural Traffic in the Classroom
  • Richard Schur; Gothic, Then and Now; Teaching Bad Romance: Poe's Women, the Gothic, and Lady Gaga
  • Derek McGrath; Crossing the Barrier: An Active-Text Approach to Teaching Pet Sematary
  • Alissa Burger; Teaching the Popular through Visual Culture.
  • The Literature of Attractions: Teaching the Popular Fiction of the 1890s through Early Cinema
  • Michael DevineThomas Chalmers Harbaugh's Dime Novel Westerns and Video Game Narratives
  • Lisa Long; Appendix: Supplement to Tanglen Essay; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index.