ABSTRACT
This chapter provides didactic, methodological and theoretical approaches to teaching the literary landscapes of eighteenth-century London in the university classroom. It describes the overall course design and focuses on some aspects and issues that are linked to methodologies and pedagogical strategies of teaching space. As the course focuses on one particular space – London – during one particular period – the eighteenth-century – it is imperative that students are provided with a substantial knowledge of historical and cultural content. With a focus on literature, the main aim of a geocritical approach is "to understand the real and fictional spaces that we inhabit, cross through, imagine, survey, modify, celebrate, disparage, and on and on in an infinite variety". By working with the strategies, students are encouraged to acknowledge the stratigraphic vision of the city that geocriticism promotes on the one hand and to acquire methodological tools to uncover the manifold layers of literary London on the other.
