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Liwen Zhang is tenure-track Lecturer in English Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
""This very informative and readable book explores ways in which Victorian novelists saw the potential of the novel to become knowledge … This study will be a valuable source for students of literature and history."" — CHOICE ""Vibrantly smart, deeply researched, and enormously edifying, Novel Pedagogy effectively balances two aims: first, to trace a history of the novel as a history of the genre's institutionalization in relation to education and pedagogy; and second, to use that history as a ground for the development of nuanced and original close readings of several canonical Victorian novelists. Zhang shows that these novels are not passively swept up into historical and cultural trends, but rather use the novel itself to participate actively in debates about education, useful knowledge, young minds, moralism and didacticism, lessons in craft, and more. Lucid and approachable, this book will be read with enthusiasm and appreciation by scholars of Victorian studies and historians of the novel, reading, education, and pedagogy."" — Daniel Wright, author of The Grounds of the Novel
