[Vwoolf] Informal survey on teaching Eminent Victorians

[Claire Battershill]

Dear Todd, 

A few years ago I was a TA for a second-year undergrad "Autobiography and Biography" course at the University of Toronto (taught by Heather Jackson) that included EV. Actually, it was an extract: the Preface and Florence Nightingale. I've never seen it on a modernism syllabus, though. Very curious to know the results of your search! 

Very best,
Claire


Dr. Claire Battershill
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Reading
Department of English
www.clairebattershill.com

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From: vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu <vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu> on behalf of Eleanor McNees <Eleanor.McNees at du.edu>
Sent: 04 April 2014 19:49
To: Avery, Todd; VWOOLF listserv
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Informal survey on teaching Eminent Victorians

Dear Tom,

This just popped up on my computer as I'm contemplating leaving my office at 5:45 on a Friday! I work on Virginia Woolf and the Victorians and so am very familiar with Eminent Victorians, have taught it periodically over the years in graduate classes and referred to Strachey's satirical portraits in other classes as well always with the caveat that his views are somewhat exaggerated and, from my perspective, rather unfair. I think this may also be taught occasionally in genre classes which focus on biography, but to my knowledge no one else at DU, for example, teaches it, and I suspect most haven't read it. It isn't particularly well known today though I think it's still in print.

I'm curious about the editor's query to you?

Best regards,

Eleanor

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From: vwoolf-bounces+emcnees=du.edu at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+emcnees=du.edu at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Avery, Todd
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 5:44 PM
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Informal survey on teaching Eminent Victorians

Friends,

I hope you all are well, that spring has sprung where you are (or that autumn is delightful a ways south of where I am, in New England) and I hope, too, that an inquiry about Lytton Strachey is appropriate for the list.  I'm really simply curious---this came up in a conversation with an editor---as to how widely and frequently Eminent Victorians is taught.  I'll look into this further, with publishers, but I thought I'd begin here, at the center of the canon, rather than "on the fringes" (the editor's phrase).

Many thanks for any information, however casual.

Best,

Todd

Dr. Todd Avery
Associate Professor of English
Coordinator, Online English B.A. Program University of Massachusetts Lowell O'Leary Library 481
61 Wilder Street
Lowell, MA 01854
978-934-4184
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