The Victorian Schoolroom
Author | : Trevor May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education, Elementary |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Trevor May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education, Elementary |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Moses |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Classrooms |
ISBN | : 9780750225557 |
Author | : Elizabeth Gargano |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135861226 |
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian anxieties about the rapid institutionalization of education and the shrinking realm of domestic instruction. As schools increasingly mapped out a schema of time schedules, standardized grades or forms, separate disciplines, and hierarchical architectural spaces, childhood development also came to be seen as regularized and standardized according to clear developmental categories. Yet, Dickens, Brontë, and others did not simply critique or satirize the standardization of school experience. Instead, most portrayed the schoolroom as an unstable site, incorporating both institutional and domestic space. Drawing on the bildungsroman’s traditional celebration of an individualized, experiential education, numerous novels of school life strove to present the novel itself as a form of domestic education, in contrast to the rigors of institutional instruction. By positioning the novel as a form of domestic education currently under attack, these novelists sought to affirm its value as a form of protest within an increasingly institutionalized society. The figure of the child as an emblem of beleaguered innocence thus became central to the Victorian fictive project.
Author | : Elizabeth Gargano |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135861234 |
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian anxieties about the rapid institutionalization of education and the shrinking realm of domestic instruction. As schools increasingly mapped out a schema of time schedules, standardized grades or forms, separate disciplines, and hierarchical architectural spaces, childhood development also came to be seen as regularized and standardized according to clear developmental categories. Yet, Dickens, Brontë, and others did not simply critique or satirize the standardization of school experience. Instead, most portrayed the schoolroom as an unstable site, incorporating both institutional and domestic space. Drawing on the bildungsroman’s traditional celebration of an individualized, experiential education, numerous novels of school life strove to present the novel itself as a form of domestic education, in contrast to the rigors of institutional instruction. By positioning the novel as a form of domestic education currently under attack, these novelists sought to affirm its value as a form of protest within an increasingly institutionalized society. The figure of the child as an emblem of beleaguered innocence thus became central to the Victorian fictive project.
Author | : Brenda Wyn Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bethesda (Gwynedd, Wales) |
ISBN | : 9780860741879 |
Author | : Susie Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780750257060 |
'Be a History Detective' will show you how to find out more about the past by finding clues in your local area and will help you start a history project of your own.
Author | : Kathryn Hughes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852853259 |
The figure of the governess is very familiar from nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This book is the first rounded exploration of what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of previously undiscovered sources, Kathryn Hughes describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of governesses. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects. The governess provides a key to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support her in leisure. Being paid to educate another woman's children set in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who was sometimes mistaken for a servant.
Author | : William Armitage Averill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Paper industry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philipp Löffler |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3825367207 |
‘Reading the Canon’ explores the relation between the production of literary value and the problem of periodization, tracing how literary tastes, particular reader communities, and sites of literary learning shape the organization of literature in historical perspective. Rather than suggesting a political critique of the canon, this book shows that the production of literary relevance and its tacit hierarchies of value are necessary consequences of how reading and writing are organized as social practices within different fields of literary activity. ‘Reading the Canon’ offers a comprehensive theoretical account of the conundrums still defining contemporary debates about literary value; the book also features a series of historically-inflected author studies—from classics, such as Shakespeare and Thomas Pynchon, to less likely figures, such as John Neal and Owen Johnson—that illustrate how the idea of literary relevance has been appropriated throughout history and across a variety of national and transnational literary institutions.