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While other chapters in this volume detail highly specialized, creative, and novel approaches to teaching Victorian literature, this chapter offers a basic guide to teaching a “standard” course focused on canonical texts and traditional pedagogy. New instructors teaching the literature of the period will find in it a basic model survey course in Victorian literature. Its week-by-week format demonstrates how instructors might organize thematic units around issues such as genre, faith and doubt, the Woman Question, and imperialism. It offers suggestions on canonical textual selection and provides recommendations for pedagogical practices.
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Mazzeno, L.W. (2017). A Model Victorian Survey Course. In: Cadwallader, J., Mazzeno, L. (eds) Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58886-5_20
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