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Speicher outlines and provides examples of four basic plots that recur in the narratives: exhibitions and spelling bees to prove competence, school violence with corporal punishment and older boys resistance, male teachers falling in love with and marrying their female students, and teachers assuming parental roles (usually female teachers as mother figures). Speicheremphasizes the fact that authors hoped not only to entertain their readers but also to promote longer school sessions; better quarters, books, and equipment; and teacher training. She also points out that 19th-century readers saw these situations far differently than do 21st-century readers. The book covers new ground, is well written, and maintains the reader s interest. Summing Up: Recommended. <i>CHOICE</i> <i>Schooling Readers</i> will fascinate literary critics as well as historians of education. Speicher has performed a great scholarly service in assembling and providing as an appendix an ample bibliography of common school narratives; this will facilitate future research in this compelling area of study, as will the nature of the book s chapter topics. Patricia Roylance, author of <i>Eclipse of Empires: World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture</i>

-Schooling Readers is an important contribution to our understanding of how literature not only informed the arguments concerning education for a democracy but also how it functioned as an instrument of education.- --Mary Louise Kete, author of Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth Century America and coauthor of the Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing

Schooling Readers is an important contribution to our understanding of how literature not only informed the arguments concerning education for a democracy but also how it functioned as an instrument of education. Mary Louise Kete, author of Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth Century America and coauthor of the Women s Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing

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Allison Speicher is an assistant professor of English, teaching nineteenth-century American literature and children's literature at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA.

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