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Survey for Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion

Edited by Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire

This survey is designed to gather information about instructors’ methods and materials for teaching Austen’s last completed novel, Persuasion, for the purpose of developing a new volume on the topic in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Respondents are invited to answer the questions related to their teaching below; they are also encouraged to submit a proposal for a contribution to the volume. Proposals and survey responses are due by 1 May 2016, after which the survey will no longer be available online. All respondents will be acknowledged in the published volume.
 
Please answer the questions on the form below and click Done when you are finished. Your responses will be collected by the volume’s editors. If you wish to submit an essay proposal for the volume (see item 17 for requirements), please send it by e-mail to Marcia Folsom and John Wiltshire (marciafolsom@gmail.com and j.wiltshire@latrobe.edu.au). Please send supplemental materials such as course descriptions, syllabi, assignments, and bibliographies as attachments (.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf). Surface mail submissions may be sent to Dr. Marcia Folsom, Chair of Humanities and Writing, Wheelock College, 200 Riverway, Boston, MA 02215.

Thank you for helping in the development of this important project. You are invited to answer questions that will illuminate your approach to teaching Austen’s Persuasion.
1.Personal Information(Required.)
2.Describe the course(s) in which you have taught Persuasion. Please indicate course title and type (e.g., survey of nineteenth-century or British literature, women writers, introduction to literature, gender studies, the history of the novel, Romanticism; undergraduate or graduate seminar). Please list which texts you have used and specify how much time you devote to them.
3.Which edition of Persuasion do you assign? Does the edition you use include the  “canceled chapters”?
4.Which of Austen’s six novels do you teach most often, and why do you select those texts? Do you teach any of the juvenilia or Sanditon with Persuasion? Do you teach Persuasion in relation to the other two “Chawton novels”?