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One of the biggest challenges facing any Victorianist who regularly teaches fiction is to keep students motivated when they are reading what appear to them to be endlessly long novels. Overwhelming as it is for students to face a semester syllabus that asks them to complete 2000-3000 pages of reading (the usual range in my upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on Victorian fiction), it is particularly daunting when 800 of those pages are contained in a single novel such as Our Mutual Friend or Middlemarch. And when there are five or six novels on the syllabus, anything that helps students feel the task is broken down into more manageable quantities (i.e. smaller than the novels themselves) is not simply gratefully received but pedagogically sound as a means of keeping them invested in doing the reading required of them. I have found that students will freely admit, if one asks in the right way, that they cannot (or do not) always keep up with the reading, making choices such as skipping one novel in order to finish another, or skimming quickly over large amounts of text to pull out highlights that will enable them to have something to mention in class to make it look as tho

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Author

Andrea Kaston Tange

Publisher

Project MUSE; Johns Hopkins University Press (ISSN 0709-4698)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)