1st Edition
Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Exclusion as Innovation
Biography
Sheila Cordner teaches at Boston University. She has published articles on authors such as Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and has presented research on Victorian literature, Irish literature, service learning, and digital humanities.
"This is a slim volume replete with generative thinking about teaching in Victorian literary studies. Cordner’s analyses invite us to give sustained consideration to what students’ transformative individual reading combined with innovative classroom approaches might ideally achieve. The text also lends itself to pedagogical purposes through its inclusion of facsimiles of rarely studied primary source documents that are central to each chapter’s analyses."
– Sarah Winter, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"Let us first marvel at the advantages. In the first place, Sheila Cordner successfully shares the excitement and wonder of her primary research. She reads familiar texts like Emma, Jude the Obscure, and Aurora Leigh just as refreshingly as she reads the quirky genres we barely recognize as ancestors of the Harvard Lampoon, women's studies, popular mechanics, and the BBC proms. Second, the author (finally!) does some justice to the role of class in connecting the authors of these diverse texts."
– Fang Li, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
