Literature, Education, and Romanticism Reading as Social Practice, 17801832 [Paperback]

Reassessment of how schooling and literacy in Romantic Britain defined literature.In this innovative study Alan Richardson argues that transformations in schooling and literacy in Romantic Britain helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. Topics include definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature, and female education.In this innovative study Alan Richardson argues that transformations in schooling and literacy in Romantic Britain helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. Topics include definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature, and female education.In this innovative study Alan Richardson addresses issues in literary and educational history never examined together before. He argues that transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. Topics include definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature and female education. Richardson charts how social relations were transformed through reading and education, and Romantic texts are reinterpreted in the light of historical and social issues.Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Childhood, education, and power; 2. School time; 3. Children's literature and the work of culture; 4. Women, education, and the novel; 5. The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties; 6. Epilogue: Romanticism and the idea of literature; Notes; Index. At the conclusion of this study Richardson states that he hopes he has established 'new directions for further critical study, a larger sense of the era's richness and diversity in examples, provocations, and possibilities for reimagining educational change.' He succeeds. Each person who studies Richardson will find matter to investigate. Nineteenth-Century Literature Comprehensive, rigorous, sophisticated, and good-humored, Literature, Education, and Romanticism is a mls!