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Short Fiction By Women In The Victorian Literature Survey, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Short Fiction By Women In The Victorian Literature Survey, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
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The first time I taught a Victorian Literature survey, fresh out of a curriculum integration workshop in graduate school, I taught ten authors: five male and five female. One student evaluation after the course was over complained that despite the promise of “great” Victorian writers, half of those on the syllabus were women. While this did take place in the dark ages of the early nineties, I still find myself, as I design my syllabi, caught in the familiar conundrum as to what to teach, what to cut, and why. In my case, it seems simple: The Victorian period is …