Elizabeth Gargano

Reading Victorian Schoolrooms (eBook, PDF)

Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135861230
• Artikelnr.: 39950147

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