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Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832

By Alan Richardson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521462762, 9780521462761, 0521607094, 9780521607094
LCC
PR457 .R456 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10298509 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages
348\346
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this innovative study Alan Richardson addresses issues in literary and educational history never examined together before. He argues that transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. Topics include definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature and female education. Richardson charts how social relations were transformed through reading and education, and Romantic texts are reinterpreted in the light of historical and social issues.

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