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This volume's emphasis on the dialectic between students and scholars makes for fresh and thoughtful approaches to pedagogy. Covering a wide range of material - from canonical to noncanonical texts and from single-author courses to surveys - the essays provide informative and useful models for scholars and teachers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. Overall, 'Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900' is a valuable contribution to the fields of both literary and women's studies.

Eighteenth-Century British Literature') An important, timely collection of essays that 'seizes this moment' to assess and point out new directions for the ongoing project of recovering and teaching British women writers. Of particular value is the volume's sustained focus on 'teachable moments' experienced through the student/teacher conversation in different institutional settings. (Greg Kucich, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, and Coeditor of 'Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal') This volume's emphasis on the dialectic between students and scholars makes for fresh and thoughtful approaches to pedagogy. Covering a wide range of material - from canonical to noncanonical texts and from single-author courses to surveys - the essays provide informative and useful models for scholars and teachers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. Overall, 'Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900' is a valuable contribution to the fields of both literary and women's studies. (Sharon Harrow, Assistant Professor of English, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and Author of 'Adventures in Domesticity: Gender and Colonial Adulteration in Eighteenth-Century British Literature')

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The Editors: Jeanne Moskal is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the author of Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness (1994), and the editor of Travel Writing, vol. 8 in The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (1996). She serves as the President of the International Society of Travel Writing. Shannon R. Wooden received her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001, specializing in Victorian literature. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana. Her research interests include nineteenth-century science, medicine, and definitions of race.

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