Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation

ISBN-13: 9780367175757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Sheila Cordner

Opis

Cordner traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked chapter in the history of thought about education. Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing used their position as outsiders excluded from Oxford and Cambridge by gender or class to argue for the value of learning outside of schools. Their work points to a broader cultural movement that embraced the freedom of learning on one's own.

Spis treści

Table of Contents to come.

O autorze

Sheila Cordner teaches at Boston University. She has published articles on authors such as Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and has presented research on Victorian literature, Irish literature, service learning, and digital humanities.