Novel Pedagogy: The Novel and Educational Publications in Victorian Britain
Author:   Liwen Zhang
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438499734


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   01 October 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Liwen Zhang
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438499734


ISBN 10:   1438499736
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   01 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: What Kind of Knowledge Does the Novel Teach? 1. William Thackeray, the Character Sketch, and the Portrait of a Novelist in Literary History 2. Charles Kingsley and the Novelist as Poetry Instructor 3. Great Expectations and Dickens's Spelling Book Predicament 4. Elizabeth Gaskell and the Ambiguity of Useful Knowledge 5. George Eliot's ""Graceful Mark of Instruction"" and the Novel as ""Shallow"" Knowledge 6. George Gissing and the Elusive Art of Fiction Coda: Can There Ever Be an Endgame for the Novel's Intellectual Rise? Notes Bibliography Index"

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"""Vibrantly smart, deeply researched, and enormously edifying, Novel Pedagogy effectively balances two aims: first, to trace a history of the novel as a history of the genre's institutionalization in relation to education and pedagogy; and second, to use that history as a ground for the development of nuanced and original close readings of several canonical Victorian novelists. Zhang shows that these novels are not passively swept up into historical and cultural trends, but rather use the novel itself to participate actively in debates about education, useful knowledge, young minds, moralism and didacticism, lessons in craft, and more. Lucid and approachable, this book will be read with enthusiasm and appreciation by scholars of Victorian studies and historians of the novel, reading, education, and pedagogy."" — Daniel Wright, author of The Grounds of the Novel"


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Liwen Zhang is tenure-track Lecturer in English Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

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