Author: Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse
Author: Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Feminine Principles and Women's Experience in American Composition and Rhetoric
Author: Louise PhelpsPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980681
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
In this unique collection, the editors and authors examine, against a rich historical background, the complex contributions that women have made to composition and rhetoric in American education. Using varied and at times experimental modes of presentation to portray teachers and learners at work, including the very young and the elderly, the text provides a generous and fresh feminine perspective on the field.
Guy's School Geography ... Sixth edition, etc. [With maps.]
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Author: Joseph GUY (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26
Author: The Edinburgh annual register
Author: The Edinburgh Annual Register
Author: Walter ScottThe Pleasures of Memory
Author: Sarah WinterPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823266192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.” Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens’s serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens’s celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into “mass” populations served by state school systems, Dickens’s beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.
George Washington's Hair
Author: Keith BeutlerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813946514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Mostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington’s hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America’s historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums. Excavating the origins of these bodily artifacts, Keith Beutler uncovers a forgotten strand of early American memory practices and emerging patriotic identity. Between 1790 and 1840, popular memory took a turn toward the physical, as exemplified by the craze for collecting locks of Washington’s hair. These new, sensory views of memory enabled African American Revolutionary War veterans, women, evangelicals, and other politically marginalized groups to enter the public square as both conveyors of these material relics of the Revolution and living relics themselves. George Washington’s Hair introduces us to a taxidermist who sought to stuff Benjamin Franklin’s body, an African American storyteller brandishing a lock of Washington’s hair, an evangelical preacher burned in effigy, and a schoolmistress who politicized patriotic memory by privileging women as its primary bearers. As Beutler recounts in vivid prose, these and other ordinary Americans successfully enlisted memory practices rooted in the physical to demand a place in the body politic, powerfully contributing to antebellum political democratization.