ABSTRACT
This chapter provides teachers with plenty of ideas to help teachers ignite their own enthusiasm for nineteenth-century fiction, as well as their students’. Teaching nineteenth-century fiction is a wonderful opportunity to acquaint students with many of the most canonical authors in English literature. The chapter presents an overview of common features specific to nineteenth-century novels, with ideas on how teachers can use the devices to help students understand their significance to the stories they are reading. It deals with advice on selecting a text and planning out a scheme of work, before some general ideas on how to bring nineteenth-century novels alive in the classroom. Nineteenth-century fiction is a huge umbrella term for a wide variety of work. Create a glossary of commonly used words and phrases in the text teachers are studying, as well as in nineteenth-century fiction in general, and encourage students to start using these in their everyday speech.
