Teaching Romanticism

Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. This book, written by leading academics, presents innovative, practical approaches to teaching traditional and newer aspects of the curriculum and is essential to anyone teaching Romanticism at university level.

DAVID HIGGINS is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine (2005) and Frankenstein: Character Studies (2008), and co-editor (with Ashley Chantler) of Studying English Literature (2009). His current research focuses on Romantic autobiography and national identity.
 
SHARON RUSTON is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford, UK. She has published Shelley and Vitality (2005) and Romanticism (2007), edited 'Literature and Science', the 2008 volume of Essays and Studies, and numerous essays on Romanticism and science. She is currently Vice-President of the British Association for Romantic Studies.

Series Preface * Notes on the Contributors * Chronology * List of Key Works * List of Key Individuals * Introduction--D.Higgins &--S.Ruston * PART ONE: THE CHANGING CANON 
* Scottish, Irish and Welsh Romanticism--M.Pittock * Romantic Theatre--T.C.Crochunis *
Labouring-class Poets--J.Goodridge * Interdisciplinarity/ Visual Arts--S.Thomas * Gender &--Sexuality--S.Ruston * Slavery, Empire, Race--B.Carey * PART TWO: APPROACHES TO TEACHING ROMANTICISM * Teaching European Romanticism--D.Higgins * Teaching Romanticism in the Lakes: Place, Poetry, Process--S.Bushell *  Teaching Romanticism with ICT--S.Behrendt * Close Reading Romanticism--M.ONeill & S.Wootton * Theorising Romanticism--S.Chaplin * Postgraduate Study in Romanticism in the UK, the US, and Canada--H.Kramer Linkin * Teaching Romanticism in Japan--S.Clark & M.Suzuki *  Guide to Further Reading