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Teaching later British literature : a thematic approach /

Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, 'A Handbook to Teaching Later British Literature' presents a synthetic and adaptable framework for guiding students through...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pionke, Albert D., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2019.
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  • Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I to III; Part I English Romanticism; Chapter 1 Introduction; I. Periodizing the Romantics; II. Historicizing the Romantics; III. Canonizing the Romantics; IV. William Hazlitt's "My First Acquaintance with Poets" as an Introduction to English Romanticism; Chapter 2 Theme One: Revolution; I. Thematic Introduction; II. Romantic Responses to the French Revolution; III. Romantic Poetry and Revolution; Chapter 3 Theme Two: Individualism; I. Thematic Introduction
  • II. Individualism in Blake's Works on ReligionIII. Individualism and Gender; IV. The Romantic Outsider; Chapter 4 Theme Three: Poetry and Poetics; I. Thematic Introduction; II. Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads; III. Shelley's Defence of Poetry; IV. Romantic Poetry about Poetry; Chapter 5 Theme Four: Nature; I. Thematic Introduction; II. Nature in First-Generation Romantic Poems; III. Nature in Second-Generation Romantic Poems; IV. Nature in Clare's "Pastoral Poesy"; Chapter 6 Theme Five: Orientalism; I. Thematic Introduction; II. Scots Orient in Burns's "Tam o'Shanter."
  • III. Coleridge's Supernatural OrientalismIV. Orientalism and "Old China"; Schedule of Readings; Suggestions for Further Reading; Part II English Victorianism; Chapter 7 Introduction; I. Periodizing the Victorians; II. Historicizing the Victorians; III. Canonizing the Victorians; IV. Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times" as an Introduction to English Victorianism; Chapter 8 Theme One: Democracy; I. Thematic Introduction; II. Guardianship Democracy in Past and Present; III. Radical Democracy, the Dramatic Monologue and "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point."
  • IV. Preventing the "Tyranny of the Majority" in On LibertyChapter 9 Theme Two: Gender; I. Thematic Introduction; II. Literary Reflections on Womanliness; III. Extremes of Manliness in the Poetry of Robert Browning; IV. Gendered Complications in "Jenny"; Chapter 10 Theme Three: Culture; I. Thematic Introduction; II. The Epic of the Present in Aurora Leigh; III. Arnoldian Criticism and the Culturing of Art; IV. Criticism as Art in The Renaissance; V. From Theory into Practice: "Andrea del Sarto"; Chapter 11 Theme Four: The "Condition of England"; I. Thematic Introduction
  • II. Factory Reform through PoetryIII. The Condition of England as "Melancholy Madness"; IV. Medievalism as a Response to Industrialization; Chapter 12 Theme Five: Empire; I. Thematic Introduction; II. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"; III. National Chauvinism in "The Englishman"; IV. Of Markets and Goblins; V. Mirrors of Empire in "The Man Who Would Be King"; Schedule of Readings; Suggestions for Further Reading; Part III English Modernism; Chapter 13 Introduction; I. Periodizing the Moderns; II. Historicizing the Moderns; III. Canonizing the Moderns