Pedagogy
Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester by Lisa Fletcher, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester
Abstract: This article outlines one model for introducing popular romance studies to undergraduate English programs: teaching romance texts and topics alongside canonical and contemporary literary texts. It discusses the authors’ approach to teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester in a unit on historical fiction offered at the University of Tasmania in 2010 and analyses student responses to this initiative through examination of selected assessment tasks.
As you continue this work you might be interested in Doubled Plots, Romance and History, Strehle and Carden. Karin Westman’s piece in the collection, “A Story of Her Weaving,” focuses on the self-authoring heroines of Heyer, including Phoebe Marlow of Sylvester. I enjoyed your piece.