Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and author of Shelley and His Audiences )1989), Reading William Blake (1992), and Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte (1997). He edited Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein (1990). He is currently working on a book about British women writers and radicalism in the Romantic period. Harriet Kramer Linkin is associate professor of Engliish at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, whe she teaches courses in Romanticism and gender, women writers, and gender and language. She has published on William Blake, on gender issues, and on Romanticism and pedagogy. She is completing a book ofn Mary Tighe.

This valuable collection of essays will, I would predict, open up the teaching of women Romantic poets in exciting ways. Well written, useful, grounded in the realities of university teaching, each one of these essays presents an innovative and original way of teaching poetry that has long been shut out of the canon.--Diane Long Hoeveler, author of Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within