Schooling Readers - Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Speicher AllisonPevná vazba
Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular…
Specifikacia Schooling Readers - Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Speicher AllisonPevná vazba
Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction--though now often forgotten--set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century.Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts of the US produced remarkably similar school fictions. These stories, rather than offering idealized depictions of earnest schoolchildren in humble, rough-hewn schoolhouses, expose common schools as sites of both community bonding and social strife. These stories, Speicher shows, reflect surprisingly contemporary problems like school violence and apprehensions about assessments.In four insightful sections, Speicher illuminates the plotlines that define the common school