As Tedra Osell has noted at Crooked Timber, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been posting sporadically about his experience reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch for the first time. (Osell also helpfully provides links to Coates’s posts on Middlemarch). I have enjoyed reading Coates’s attempts to wrestle with what it is about Eliot’s prose that makes it so, well, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘teaching’
The Challenge of Writing About George Eliot’s Writing
Posted in Jennifer Esmail, tagged George Eliot, teaching on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sensation vs. Gothic
Posted in Tara MacDonald, tagged gothic, Sensation Novels, teaching on May 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’ll be teaching a new MA course on Sensation and Gothic fiction at the University of Amsterdam next year, and I would love to hear suggestions about what Victorian novels I should include. I am also hoping the course will help me answer some of the questions I have about the differences between these two [...]
An Embarrassment of Riches…
Posted in Tara MacDonald, tagged teaching, the novel on November 12, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I’m putting together a syllabus for a general course on the Victorian novel, and am finding it difficult to decide what 5 or 6 novels to include. This syllabus is for a job application, so it is a course that I’d like to teach someday, rather than one that I will actually be teaching soon. [...]
