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Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O'Connor, including considerations of race, whiteness, class, religion, disability, gender, technology, the environment, and the post-World War II period. Gives syllabus suggestions for courses in American literature, Southern literature, creative writing, and women's studies.

Addresses a broad range of Eliza Haywood's works, providing literary and sociopolitical context from writings by Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and others, and from contemporary documents such as advice manuals and court records.

David Foster Wallace's works engaged with his literary moment - roughly summarized as postmodernism - and with the author's historical context. The essays in this volume suggest ways to explain Wallace's philosophical and literary preoccupations as students contend with urgent issues, both personal and political, through reading literature.

David Foster Wallace's works engaged with his literary moment - roughly summarized as postmodernism - and with the author's historical context. The essays in this volume suggest ways to explain Wallace's philosophical and literary preoccupations as students contend with urgent issues, both personal and political, through reading literature.

Amitav Ghosh is the prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts. His works cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel. Part 1 of this volume discusses editions of Ghosh's works and major works of scholarship. Part 2, "Approaches", present ideas for teaching Ghosh's works.

Shakespeare's history plays make up nearly a third of his corpus and feature iconic characters and unforgettable scenes. But these plays present challenges for teachers. Part 1 of this volume introduces instructors to the many available editions of the plays, the wealth of contectual and critical writings available, and other resources. Part 2 contains essays on various topics in the plays.

Shakespeare's history plays make up nearly a third of his corpus and feature iconic characters and unforgettable scenes. But these plays present challenges for teachers. Part 1 of this volume introduces instructors to the many available editions of the plays, the wealth of contectual and critical writings available, and other resources. Part 2 contains essays on various topics in the plays.

A leader of the transcendentalist movement and one of America's first public intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson is remembered for his essays, but in the nineteenth century he was also known as a poet and orator. This volume presents strategies for placing Emerson in the context of his time, for illuminating his rhetorical techniques, and for tracing his influence into the present day and around the world.

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has joined the ranks of celebrated literary graphic novels. Set in part at a family-run funeral home, the book explores Alison's complicated relationship with her father, a closeted gay man. This volume offers strategies for teaching Fun Home in a variety of courses, including literature, women's and gender studies, art, and education.

First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text.

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion, politics, and morality. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through Pizan's work.

The greatest work of one of France's greatest writers, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables seemed stylistically and even politically out of date when it was published in 1862. The novel's length, multiple narratives, and encyclopaedic digressiveness make it a pleasure to read but a challenge to teach. This volume is designed to address the needs of instructors in a variety of courses.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the nonfiction graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel in college courses in literature, women's and gender studies, and art, including considerations of autobiography theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary and historical allusions, and the work's musical adaptation. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion, politics, and morality. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through Pizan's work.

First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text.

"Emilia Pardo Bazan is without a doubt the most prolific and influential woman writer of late-nineteenth-century Spain", write the editors of this volume. Her writings cover topics from science and technology to fashion and gender equality. This volume provides biographical and critical resources, and explores Pardo-Bazan's engagement with contemporary literary movements, feminism and gender.

"Emilia Pardo Bazan is without a doubt the most prolific and influential woman writer of late-nineteenth-century Spain", write the editors of this volume. Her writings cover topics from science and technology to fashion and gender equality. This volume provides biographical and critical resources, and explores Pardo-Bazan's engagement with contemporary literary movements, feminism and gender.

"This outstanding volume invites instructors to consider a much larger number of works than are generally assigned. It provides a solid grounding in the literary and historical context necessary for newcomers to London and fresh ideas for those who have taught the canonical texts before." - John Dudley, University of South Dakota.

The first part of this volume provides instructors with an overview of the available editions, anthologies, and translations of Levi's work and identifies other useful classroom aids, such as films, music, and online resources. In the second part, contributors describe different approaches to teaching Levi's work.

The first part of this volume provides instructors with an overview of the available editions, anthologies, and translations of Levi's work and identifies other useful classroom aids, such as films, music, and online resources. In the second part, contributors describe different approaches to teaching Levi's work.