Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2010
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00692.x
Abstract
Although the availability of classroom texts and scholarship on 18th century British women writers has grown substantially in the past 20 years, little has been written about the classroom experience. This essay surveys the questions and materials that shape the teaching of female authors from Behn to Barbauld (roughly 1660–1800). Beginning with the arguments on recovery and esthetic or cultural appreciation, the essay reviews available texts (paper and digital sources), organization and methods of teaching, and further resources for the instructor. Throughout, the essay includes strategies for recursive critical reading and achieving general education learning objectives, thus demonstrating how the classroom can be used as a critical space for feminist recovery of early women writers.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Literature Compass v. 7, issue 3, p. 145-242
Scholar Commons Citation
Runge, Laura, "Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women Writers" (2010). English Faculty Publications. 82.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/eng_facpub/82
