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Peer reviewedFenstermaker, John J. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Considers the issue of literary canons, raised in the context of a week-long series of lectures and discussions on "the Victorians" in an Elderhostel program, with participants for whom these texts were the product of their parents' generation and of their own childhood reading. Raises substantive questions about the meaning of a…
Descriptors: College English, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literature Appreciation
Download full textPeterson, Linda H. – 1990
By examining two autobiographies by Victorian women, the role of editors in the composing and publishing of autobiographical texts can be explored, and questions can be raised about the way personal writing is assigned, edited, and evaluated in classrooms today. The autobiography of Margaret Oliphant, a prolific Victorian novelist and critic, was…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Editing, Editors, Females
