Description:
Offers pedagogical techniques and syllabus suggestions for teaching British laboring-class literature, 1700-1900 in the college classroom. Topics include georgic, theater, popular narrative, satire, chartist poetry, labor studies, cultural archaeology, sailor memoirs, periodicals, authors of African descent, working-class women, urban mysteries, broadside ballads, autobiographies, and service learning.
Review Quotes:
"[A] very rich volume, full of good ideas and likely to be of great value to instructors and scholars. I was impressed by the inventive and imaginative methods the contributors described to teach this fairly new topic." --John Goodridge, Nottingham Trent University