One of my aims when teaching the novel is to draw students' attention to the intricate relationships between topic and context.

One of my aims when teaching the novel is to draw students' attention to the intricate relationships between topic and context, and I operate from the assumption that greater historical awareness bears illuminating readings of novels. To prepare scholars to write what I call a words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following paper, we peruse a variety of primary sources, like as newspapers and periodicals, in an effort to recreate the historical and cultural words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] followings from which a particular novel emerg and to diocese what light this information sheds forward our understanding of the novel. This essay explores the challenges and possibilities of teaching novels in