Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System

ISBN-13: 9780192867506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str.

History Lecturer History and Literature Morgan (Lecturer

Recenzje

Schools of Fiction returns us to the shaky beginnings of US higher education to tell the compelling story of how novels about the "real world" helped legitimize these nascent institutions. In this expansive study, detailed microhistories of secret societies, publicity offices, credit hours, and course electives illuminate both popular and canonical works of American and African American fiction. Sailing through the Scylla of institutionalism and the Charybdis of literary formalism, Day Frank shows us how to write literary and educational history togetherDLhow what was on the syllabus mattered to the young universities in which American literature was first taught.

O autorze

Morgan Day Frank is a lecturer in the History and Literature program at Harvard University.