Author Description

1. Introduction / Allen Webb -- 2. A Virtual World For Lord Of The Flies: Engaging Students And Meeting Common Core Standards / Cara Arver -- 3. Midsummer Madness And The Virtual Tempest: Shakespeare As Foolish Role-play Game / Joseph Haughey And Jennifer Barns -- 4. From Migrant Labor To High Society: Of Mice And Men And The Great Gatsby In Virtual Worlds / Gretchen Rumohr-voskuil And Meghan Dykema -- 5. Teaching Things Fall Apart In The Village Of Umuofia / Cheryl Taliaferro -- 6. Content Learning In Literary Virtual Worlds: The Village Of Umuofia / Allen Webb -- 7. Building A Secondary Brave New World / Robert Rozema -- 8. Riffing On The Pied Piper: Combining Research And Creativity / Linda Dick -- 9. Virtual Flanerie: Strolling Through Mrs. Dalloway's London / Todd Kuchta -- 10. Virtual Museums: British Literacy Works In Historical And Cultural Context / Christopher Nagle, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar, And Cynthia Klekar -- 11. 'the Kindness Of Strangers': Angels In America In A Virtual World / Steve Feffer -- 12. From Muds To Metaverses: The Past And Future Of Immersive Literary Worlds / Robert Rozema -- 13. On The Building Of Worlds / Kevin Jepson. Edited By Allen Webb. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [183]-188) And Index.