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Schooling Readers: Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Allison Speicher
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Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century, though often now forgotten.
Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts of the US produced remarkably similar school fictions. These stories, rather than offering idealized depictions of earnest schoolchildren in humble, rough-hewn schoolhouses, expose common schools as sites of both community bonding and social strife. These stories, Speicher shows, reflect surprisingly contemporary problems like ... Read more
Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century, though often now forgotten.
Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts of the US produced remarkably similar school fictions. These stories, rather than offering idealized depictions of earnest schoolchildren in humble, rough-hewn schoolhouses, expose common schools as sites of both community bonding and social strife. These stories, Speicher shows, reflect surprisingly contemporary problems like ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817319168
SKU
V9780817319168
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About Allison Speicher
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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