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Author:   Anne DeLong
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Weight:   0.652kg
ISBN:  

9781440860430

ISBN 10:   1440860432
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 December 2018
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Series Foreword, Acknowledgments, Introduction and Background, Chronology, 1 Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847), Synopsis, Historical Background, About Charlotte Brontë, Why We Read This Work, Historical Explorations of Jane Eyre, Documenting Jane Eyre, Women's Work: Governess, Teacher, Companion, Document: Sarah Lewis, ""On the Social Position of Governesses"" (1848), Document: Elizabeth Rigby (Lady Eastlake), ""Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre and the Governesses Benevolent Institution Report for 1847"" (1848), Document: Bessie Rayner Parkes, Essays on Women's Work (1866), Education Reform: Boarding Schools and Ragged Schools, Document: Charles Dickens, ""On Ragged Schools"" (1846), Document: 1870 Education Act, The Racialized Other: The West Indian Creole, Document: Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857), Document: James Anthony Froude, The English in the West Indies (1888), Document: John Jacob Thomas, Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude (1889), Suggested Readings, 2 Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847), Synopsis, Historical Background, About Emily Brontë, Why We Read This Work, Historical Explorations of Wuthering Heights, Documenting Wuthering Heights, 'Til Death Do Us Part: Marriage, Property, and Inheritance Laws, Document: Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon, A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Together with a Few Observations Thereon (1854), Document: 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act, Document: 1870 Married Women's Property Act, Document: 1882 Married Women's Property Act, Skeletons in the Family Closet: Heredity and Insanity, Document: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy: Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals (1809), Document: ""Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners on Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor"" Westminster Review (1845), Document: August Weismann, Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (1889), Suggested Readings, 3 A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens, 1859), Synopsis, Historical Background, About Charles Dickens, Why We Read This Work, Historical Explorations of A Tale of Two Cities, Documenting A Tale of Two Cities, The French Revolution: Blood in the Streets, Document: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract; Or, Principles of Political Rights (1762), Document: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Document: Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History (1837), The Discontented: Social Class and Urban Poverty, Document: Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1851), Document: Annie Besant, ""Why I Am a Socialist"" (1886), Suggested Readings, 4 Victorian Poetry and Social Justice (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Synopses, ""The Cry of the Children"" (1843), ""The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Poaint"" (1848), ""A Curse for a Nation"" (1854), Aurora Leigh (1856), Historical Background, About Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Why We Read These Poems, Historical Explorations of Victorian Poetry, Documenting Victorian Poetry, Child Labor and Workers' Rights, Document: 1833 Parliamentary Debates Official Report, Volume 19, Document: 1833 Labour of Children etc. in Factories Act, Document: 1842 Mines and Collieries Act, Slavery and Abolition, Document: William Wilberforce, A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807), Document: Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Document: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Document: Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England (1839), Suggested Readings, Index,"

Reviews

"""The book is no cursory, indulgent glimpse into Victorian literature. Rather, the author skillfully and methodically scaffolds the raison d'être of the selected works with historical background, pertinent legal documents and primary sources...Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates."" - Choice ""Academic and high school libraries will find this text quite useful for English literature classes studying the 19th century. Public libraries should also consider it for their patrons."" - ARBA"

Academic and high school libraries will find this text quite useful for English literature classes studying the 19th century. Public libraries should also consider it for their patrons. - ARBA

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Anne DeLong, PhD, is associate professor of English at Kutztown University.

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