Just today Paula Loscocco and I taught some Urania together with Spenser's
House of Busyrane and it worked very well indeed. Paula and I take turns
in this team-taught course on Renaissance women writers: I do the
Continental women plus the guys we assign for contrast/comparison/etc. and
she does the Englishwomen. She is an utterly wonderful teacher who would
have a lot of advice on this. Try [log in to unmask]
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Renee Pigeon wrote:
> In a message dated 3/1/02 8:04:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
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> > I'd like to teach at least some of Wroth's Urania next year. May I bend the
> > collective ear with a couple of questions?
> >
> > 1. Are there any plans to bring out a paperback edition? If not, what would
> > it take to get one underway?
> >
> > 2. Does anyone have experience teaching excerpts of the Urania alongside
> > the House of Busyrane? Do the excerpts work in isolation?
> >
> >
> Since no one has yet answered David's question, I'll offer my relatively
> limited experience teaching the Urania. I've taught Book 1 in Paul Salzman's
> 17th Century Prose Fiction anthology in an undergraduate 17th C. lit. class.
> In general, I found students had more difficulty with the text than they did
> with the New Arcadia Books 1 & 3 in a similar 16th C. lit course that I
> teach. I haven't tried it, but I would think that excerpts from the Urania
> might work quite well along with Spenser, and that the Urania can probably be
> excerpted more effectively than the Arcadia. I'd be curious to know how
> often listmembers teach either work to undergraduates, and any approaches
> that have been especially successful.
>
> And the edition of the "complete" Arcadia sounds like a splendid idea.
> Renee
>
> Renee Pigeon
> Professor, Dept. of English
> CSUSB
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