Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Part I. Topics

1. Global Victorians
Melissa Shields Jenkins

2. Learning Through Victorian Garbage: Disgust and Desire in an Interdisciplinary Capstone Course
Tamara Ketabgian

3. Teaching Dickens by the Numbers: A Case Study of The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Julia McCord Chavez, Robert C. Hauhart

4. Teaching Penny Bloods and Dreadfuls
Rebecca Nesvet

5. Victorian Fiction and Finance
Joshua Gooch

6. Teaching Across Disciplines: Victorian Literature and Science
Jessica Kuskey

7. Using Debate to Help Undergraduate Non-majors Connect with Silas Marner

Elizabeth J. Deis

8. Getting More Bang for Your Buck: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Gender in a Survey Course
Stacey Floyd

9. Faith and Doubt in the Nineteenth Century
Michael Claxton

Part II. Genres

10. Contextualizing the Novel in the Victorian Literature Classroom
Michelle Allen-Emerson

11. Teaching Victorian Poetry with Twenty-First-Century Psychology
Todd O. Williams

12. Teaching the “Forgotten” Genre: Victorian Drama
Julianne Smith

13. The Past as Persistent Presence: Teaching Victorian Nonfiction
Sara Atwood

Part III. Digital Victorians

14. “The Office Is One Thing, and Private Life Is Another”: Social Networking with the Victorians
Patrick C. Fleming

15. Teaching About and Through Computing: Victorian Record Keeping, Data Management, and the Class Edition
Constance Crompton

16. Virtually London: Literature and Laptops
Joanna Swafford

Part IV. Victorians in the Twenty-First Century

17. Dickens and the Public Humanities: A Service-Learning Approach
Diana C. Archibald

18. Adventures in Living Like a Victorian
Jen Cadwallader

19. Teaching Neo-Victorian Literature
Louisa Hadley

Part V. Model Courses: Three Approaches

20. A Model Victorian Survey Course
Laurence W. Mazzeno

21. Victorian Visions: Literary Imaginings of Social (In)Justice in the Later Nineteenth Century
Michael Kramp

22. Ecocritical and Environmental Approaches: Teaching Victorian Poets and Novelists in the Age of the Internet
Ashton Nichols

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature and Technology/Media, British and Irish Literature, Creativity and Arts Education