Life Study in and beyond Mary Peach Collier’s Poetic Effusions
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
December 2018
Publication Title
Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Abstract
Introducing students to laboring-class authors may consist of providing a number of one-off encounters with a range (whether narrow or broad) of such authors. Building laboring-class literature into a curriculum, however, involves a good deal more work: identifying texts suited to introducing the author, identifying texts suited to more advanced engagement, and devising activities that move students from a basic understanding of the author and her work toward increasingly independent projects wherein students discover the author's life and the interplay among her life, her work, and her community. In my essay, I describe a spiraled approach for incorporating a single poet, the former domestic servant Mary Peach Collier, into a sequence of courses--from undergraduate surveys, through mid-level period courses, to research-based study.
Recommended Citation
Binfield, Kevin, "Life Study in and beyond Mary Peach Collier’s Poetic Effusions" (2018). Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity. 279.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/faculty/279