This paper explores different means for advancing a culture of
civic engagement through literature and how civic engagement activities
pursued by students through the literary texts they study can produce
civic capacities that nurture their growth.
Civic engagement through literature can become a pedagogical tool
that instructors can use to turn the classrooms into a model of a
community devoted to participatory democracy and the students from the
apathetic disengaged and self-interested persons to active, motivated and
engaged citizens