Teaching Tainted Lit
Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom
Published on 15. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-1-60938-373-2 (ISBN)
Description
Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Illustrations
3 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-373-2 (9781609383732)
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11/2015
University Of Iowa Press
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Persons
Janet G. Casey is a professor of English and director of the First Year Experience at Skidmore College, where she also teaches courses in American Studies. She is the author of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine and A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America. She is also the editor of The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction and has cocurated a museum exhibition, Classless Society. She resides in Saratoga Springs, New York.