Elizabeth Gargano

Reading Victorian Schoolrooms

Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the portrayal of school life in Victorian literature, which played out a profound cultural debate between the rapid institutionalization of education and the shrinking realm of domestic instruction that was changing the face of Victorian childhood. As schools increasingly mapped out a schema of time schedules, standardized grades or forms, separate disciplines, and standardized hierarchical architectural spaces, childhood development also came to be seen as increasingly regularized and standardized according to clear developmental categories. Elizabeth Gargano situates fictions by Dickens, Carlyle, Bronte, and others within the passionate education debates, and explores how the novelists not only depicted images of rigidly standardized schoolrooms in order to critique them, but also offered alternative educational methods and agendas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780415980340
• ISBN-10: 0415980348
• Artikelnr.: 22782030

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Gargano is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'The Idea of a Wall': Toward a New Architecture of School
and Mind 2. From Felix's Cottage to Miss Temple's Parlor: Domestic
Instruction and the Paradox of the Teacher's Room 3. Level Playing Fields
and Locked Gardens: Nature at School 4. The View from the Sickroom Window:
Zymosis, Brain Fever, and the Dangers of Institutional Education.
Conclusion