Name: Teaching the Eighteenth Century
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Teaching the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Mary Ann Rooks

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This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.

Inspired by the conversations of like-minded professors interested in promoting eighteenth-century literature through informed, innovative teaching, this collection began as a series of presentations at the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Covering a range of texts and strategies—from a genre-based approach to early novels, to an argument for student-teacher collaboration engaging Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Floating Life—the collection aims to participate in larger conversations about the “best practices” of teaching eighteenth-century texts in the undergraduate classroom. With an eye toward energizing further pedagogical dialogue about this important period, the authors share a wealth of experience and practical advice about the joys and pitfalls of teaching Western and non-Western texts to students relatively unfamiliar with early-modern literature.

Mary Rooks is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University, Stark campus. Specializing in eighteenth-century British Literature and World Literature, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico, where she worked on the Bedford Anthology of World Literature and won the Eighteenth-Century Society’s Teaching Award. Her current work focuses on the work of Sarah Fielding and includes “Sarah Fielding and the Non-Canonical Novel” in Experiments in Genre: Forms and Modes in the Eighteenth-Century (ed. Sandro Jung).