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Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma
Editor(s): Marcia McClintock Folsom
Pages: xliii & 200 pp.
Published: 2004
ISBN: 9780873529136 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873529129 (hardcover)
"Any instructor about to take the plunge and teach this complex novel will find most of what he or she needs for preparation in this strong collection of essays."
Deborah Kaplan, George Mason University
"This volume, by showing different, even conflicting ways of understanding Emma, will push teachers and students of the novel to question their own interpretations in productive ways, heightening their appreciation of Austen’s literary art."
JASNA News
Critics of Austen's Emma have remarked on both its pleasures and its difficulties. Teachers seeking to introduce Austen's intricate, subtly crafted world to new readers often find that students are put off by the novel's seeming lack of action and preoccupation with the details of daily life. This volume in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching series outlines the specific challenges of teaching Emma and shows teachers how to construct lectures, initiate classroom discussions, and devise writing assignments that illuminate for first-time readers the novel's many layers of meaning, its hospitality to different interpretations, and the sheer delights of reading and rereading the book.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma
Preface to the Volume
Introduction: The Challenges of Teaching Emma
PART 1: MATERIALS
Marcia McClintock Folsom
Editions
Criticism
Books of Particular Use to Teachers
The Emma Films
Teaching about Emma's Chronology
One Idea for Initiating Class Discussion: "Opinions of Emma"
PART 2: APPROACHES
Social and Political Contexts
The Everyday of Emma
Julia Prewitt Brown
Jane Austen, Slavery, and British Imperialism
Ruth Perry
The Experience of Class, Emma, and the American College Student
Laura Mooneyham White
Literary Contexts
Emma, the Eighteenth-Century Novel, and the Female Tradition
Lorna J. Clark
The Comedy of Emma
John Wiltshire
Emma and Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison
Celia A. Easton
Exploring Artist and Audience through Austen's "Opinions of Emma"
Annette M. LeClair
Teaching about Class and Gender in Emma
Manners in Emma
Jonathan H. Grossman
Classless, Clueless: Emma On-Screen
Carol M. Dole
"A Very Kind Undertaking": Emma and Eighteenth-Century Feminism
Devoney Looser
The Sexual Politics of Emma
Ruth Perry
Teaching about Language in Emma
Teaching about Free Indirect Discourse
Dorice Williams Elliott
Learning to Listen: Teaching about the Talk of Miss Bates
Pamela S. Bromberg
Language and Gender in Emma
Patricia Howell Michaelson
Teaching Emma's Narratives and the Narrative of Emma
Jo Alyson Parker
Teaching Specific Scenes, Patterns, or Words in Emma
A Likely Story: The Coles' Dinner Party
Joseph Wiesenfarth
"I Wish We Had a Donkey": Small-Group Work and Writing Assignments for Emma
Marcia McClintock Folsom
Health, Comfort, and Creativity: A Reading of Emma
John Wiltshire
Appendix: "Opinions of Emma"
Works Cited
Index
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