{"product_id":"teaching-tainted-lit-janet-g-casey-9781609383732","title":"Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom","description":"Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and \u003ci\u003eTeaching Tainted Lit \u003c\/i\u003eexplores that altered terrain. If the academy has historically ignored, or even sneered at, the popular, then its new accommodation within the framework of college English is noteworthy: surely the popular introduces both pleasures and problems that did not exist when faculty exclusively taught literature from an established \"high\" canon. How, then, does the assumption that the popular matters affect teaching strategies, classroom climates, and both personal and institutional notions about what it means to study literature? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays in this collection presume that the popular is here to stay and that its instructive implications are not merely noteworthy, but richly nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad variety of issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and the classroom, as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King and Lady Gaga to nineteenth-century dime novels and the 1852 best-seller \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is no secret that teaching popular texts fuels controversies about the value of cultural studies, the alleged relaxation of aesthetic standards, and the possible \"dumbing down\" of Americans. By implicitly and explicitly addressing such contentious issues, these essays invite a broader conversation about the place of the popular not only in higher education but in the reading lives of all Americans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet G. Casey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609383737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609383732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016","brand":"Janet G. Casey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48449792082175,"sku":"9781609383732","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_beaa8013-b116-437f-a096-4b8eb6418d11.jpg?v=1777264929","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teaching-tainted-lit-janet-g-casey-9781609383732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}