Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Title | Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Monika M Elbert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317671783 |
American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy. The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence was generally progressive, the benefits of this social change did not reach many parts of American society. This book is therefore an important reference for scholars of Romantic studies, American studies, historical pedagogy and education.
Nineteenth-century American Romance
Title | Nineteenth-century American Romance PDF eBook |
Author | E. Miller Budick |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Nineteenth-century American romance, as a genre, is defined by the writings of a particular group of authors - James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James - all of whom are associated with one another in time and place. In this volume, Emily Miller Budick examines the genre both as a style and within a historical context. She interprets American romance as an evolving literary aesthetic and cultural philosophy - as an effort by a group of writers to produce what Noah Webster called an "American tongue", a language imbued with the values of democracy and pluralism.
Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
Title | Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England PDF eBook |
Author | James Holt McGavran |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780820334875 |
These essays document and examine the transformation of children's literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's influence on Victorian children's literature using a variety of critical approaches, including neo-historicist, feminist, mythic, reader-response, and formalist.
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Title | Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn Keetley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1315464918 |
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Title | Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Dorri Beam |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139489232 |
In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education
Title | American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Spahr |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 165 |
Release | 2022-03-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1793649553 |
American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public conversational platforms such as Alcott’s Temple School and Fuller’s conversations for women in the 1830s to the increasingly public periodical culture and lecture platforms of the 1840s and the early 1850s. This expansion caused a reconsideration of the meaning and function of Romanticism.
Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics
Title | Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Bizzell |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1603295224 |
In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts--from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and Black women, Indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants--but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.