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Approaches to Teaching the Brontes One More Time

Approaches to Teaching the Brontes One More Time Reviews Roundtable The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Edited by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Approaches to Teaching the Brontës One More Time Diane Long Hoeveler Instructors of courses on the Brontë family now have another large encyclopedic resource to use in their teaching of the lives and works of the family. Like Heather Glen’s recently published Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (2002), this companion surveys the lives and writings of all of the family, including the father, Patrick, and brother, Branwell, while also covering some of the minute details in the works of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. The question that I will address here is not which companion to use but how to use this particular resource. Of what use to instructors and students are detailed entries on specialized topics found in the lives and works? The editors state in their preface that their purpose is to “evoke the milieu in which the Brontës lived and wrote, to disseminate new reliable research, and to provide detailed information about their lives, works, and reputation” (ix). With the assistance of seven other scholars and specialists on the Brontës, the editors have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Duke University Press

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Reviews Roundtable The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Edited by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Approaches to Teaching the Brontës One More Time Diane Long Hoeveler Instructors of courses on the Brontë family now have another large encyclopedic resource to use in their teaching of the lives and works of the family. Like Heather Glen’s recently published Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (2002), this companion surveys the lives and writings of all of the family, including the father, Patrick, and brother, Branwell, while also covering some of the minute details in the works of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. The question that I will address here is not which companion to use but how to use this particular resource. Of what use to instructors and students are detailed entries on specialized topics found in the lives and works? The editors state in their preface that their purpose is to “evoke the milieu in which the Brontës lived and wrote, to disseminate new reliable research, and to provide detailed information about their lives, works, and reputation” (ix). With the assistance of seven other scholars and specialists on the Brontës, the editors have

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