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    Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
    Pedagogy As Ethical Engagement

    Kate Parker (Edited by), Miriam L. Wallace (Edited by), Tiffany Potter (Contributions by), Ziona Kocher (Contributions by), Kate Parker (Contributions by), Teri Doerksen (Contributions by), Christine D. Myers (Contributions by), Diana Epelbaum (Contributions by), Matthew L. Reznicek (Contributions by), Travis Chi Wing Lau (Contributions by), Emily C. Casey (Contributions by), Eugenia Zuroski (Contributions by)

    9781684485048

    Hardback, published 15 December 2023

    196 pages, 9 color and 1 B-W illustrations
    23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.399 kg

    "Where do eighteenth-century teachers know from? True to its title, this remarkable collection shares the processes of some of the field's most gifted and creative teachers. Anyone still trying to woo (and serve) their students with the eighteenth century should read this in its entirety." - Manushag Powell (coeditor of Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Centur) "This collection provides timely, cogent advice at a time of disciplinary disruption. At once deeply personal and highly theoretical, each essay explores how our classrooms are being transformed by a changing academic environment. And although it is titled Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now, it is really about our disciplinary future and how our work in the classroom can provide a rubric for both continuity and positive change." - Cynthia Richards (coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Behn's "Oroonoko") "This timely and stimulating collection asks what teaching means in this historical moment and questions the relevance of the period study. Founded on the premise that, as academics, 'teaching is in fact what we do most of the time,' the essays offer insights, provocations, and inspiration for us all." - Catherine Ingrassia (author of Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750) "Wallace and Parker's Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now includes an impressive collection of essays by scholars whose teaching is grounded in a deep understanding of eighteenth-century literary culture. This volume responds to the need for pedagogical models that show how many of today's most urgent critical debates and crises are rooted in questions that emerge from eighteenth-century art and culture." - Patricia A. Matthew (editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure)

    In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century,” a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with centuries of trauma experienced by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant peoples. Taking up this challenge, each essay highlights the intellectual labor of the classroom, linking textual and cultural materials that fascinate us as researchers with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students. Some essays offer practical models for teaching through editing, sensory experience, dialogue, or collaborative projects. Others reframe familiar texts and topics through contemporary approaches, such as the health humanities, disability studies, and decolonial teaching. Throughout, authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach-how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.

    Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

    Introduction: Situating Teaching in/about/around the Eighteenth Century 
    Kate Parker and Miriam Wallace

    1 Creating Teaching Editions, Teaching through Editing
    Tiffany Potter

    2 Performing against History: Teaching Behn’s
    The Widdow Ranter
    Ziona Kocher

    3 Let’s Talk about (Early Modern) Sex . . . Online
    Kate Parker

    4 The Chocolate Project: Recontextualizing
    Eighteenth-Century Studies in a Time of Downsizing
    Teri Doerksen

    5 Enlightened Exchanges: An Interdisciplinary
    Approach to Teaching the Scottish Enlightenment
    Christine D. Myers

    6 Design, Pedagogy, and Pandemic Teaching Tools
    in an Interdisciplinary History of Science Course
    Diana Epelbaum

    7 It Was Sickness and Poverty Together: Teaching
    Inequality and Health Humanities in Austen’s Emma
    Matthew L. Reznicek

    8 Teaching Hurts
    Travis Chi Wing Lau

    9 Anticolonial Approaches to Teaching Colonial Art Histories
    Emily C. Casey

    Coda: Teaching (in) the Eighteenth(-)Century Now
    Eugenia Zuroski

    Acknowledgments
    Bibliography
    Notes on Contributors
    Index

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