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Author:   Monika Elbert ,  Lesley Ginsberg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367869984

ISBN 10:   0367869985
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Monika M. Elbert and Lesley Ginsberg Part I: Transcendental Education 1. Romantic Reform and Boys: Bronson Alcott’s Materialist Pedagogy Ken Parille and Anne Mallory 2. Teaching Transcendentalism in Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Aesthetic Papers Ricardo Miguel Alfonso 3. Educating Jo March: Plumfield, Romanticism, and the Tomboy Trajectory in the Alcott Trilogy Kristen Proehl 4. Imagination and Apocalypse: Christopher Cranch’s Novels for Young Readers Bruce Ronda Part II: Romantic Education: Origins and Legacies 5. Susanna Rowson and Early Romantic Pedagogies Lorinda B. Cohoon 6. Puppetmasters and Their Toys: Transformation of Tabula Rasa in Tales of Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Baum Holly Blackford 7. Storytelling and the Law: Performance Pedagogy in the Novels of E.D.E.N. Southworth Joyce Warren 8. ‘What has the artist done about it?’: Jane Addams, Educational Reform, and the Work of Art Anne Bruder Part III: Race and Romantic Pedagogies 9. Race and Romantic Pedagogies in the Works of Lydia Maria Child Lesley Ginsberg 10. Rhetoric or Romance? Opposition and Progress in Frederick Douglass’s Re-Presentations of Literacy Wendy Ryden 11. Upholding and Subverting Didacticism: Antislavery Iconography and the Abolitionist Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Valerie D. Levy 12. The ‘Indian Problem’ in Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Authorship: Gender and Racial Identity Tensions Unsettling a Romantic Pedagogy Sarah Ruffing Robbins Part IV: Romantic Pedagogies and the Resistant Child 13. Engendering Fantasy in Romantic Children’s Fiction Derek Pacheco 14. Nineteenth-Century Pedagogies of Unruly Childhood: Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Alcott, Twain Carol Singley

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This fascinating collection provides a rich range of well-researched and clearly written essays focusing on Romanticism, pedagogy, and the child in nineteenth-century United States literatures and culture. These smart, inviting essays will change the ways that readers think about United States education movements in the nineteenth century and today. -- Laura Laffrado, Department of English, Western Washington University, USA 'Here, the aim of Elbert and Ginsberg is to offer a sustained analysis of the interrelationships among pedagogies, Romanticism, and the figure of the child (7). This they achieve masterfully.' - Cynthia Schoolar Williams, Wentworth Institute of Technology, European Romantic Review, 27:4

"""This fascinating collection provides a rich range of well-researched and clearly written essays focusing on Romanticism, pedagogy, and the child in nineteenth-century United States literatures and culture. These smart, inviting essays will change the ways that readers think about United States education movements in the nineteenth century and today."" -- Laura Laffrado, Department of English, Western Washington University, USA 'Here, the aim of Elbert and Ginsberg is to offer “a sustained analysis of the interrelationships among pedagogies, Romanticism, and the figure of the child” (7). This they achieve masterfully.' - Cynthia Schoolar Williams, Wentworth Institute of Technology, European Romantic Review, 27:4"

This fascinating collection provides a rich range of well-researched and clearly written essays focusing on Romanticism, pedagogy, and the child in nineteenth-century United States literatures and culture. These smart, inviting essays will change the ways that readers think about United States education movements in the nineteenth century and today. -- Laura Laffrado, Department of English, Western Washington University, USA 'Here, the aim of Elbert and Ginsberg is to offer a sustained analysis of the interrelationships among pedagogies, Romanticism, and the figure of the child (7). This they achieve masterfully.' - Cynthia Schoolar Williams, Wentworth Institute of Technology, European Romantic Review, 27:4

Author Information

Monica M. Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University. She is the outgoing Editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. She recently co-edited Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013) and has published extensively on nineteenth-century American literature, Gothic literature, and women’s writing. Lesley Ginsberg is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her essays on nineteenth-century American children’s literature appear in journals including American Literature and Studies in American Fiction and in edited collections including American Childhood, Enterprising Youth, and The Children’s Table.

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