Name: Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation
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Author: Sheila Cordner
ISBN: 9780367175757

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Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation

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Physical Book

Publisher

Routledge

Author

Sheila Cordner

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780367175757

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Synopsis "Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation "

Sheila Cordner traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked chapter in the history of thought about education. This book considers an influential group of writers - all excluded from Oxford and Cambridge because of their class or gender - who argue extensively for the value of learning outside of schools altogether. From just beyond the walls of elite universities, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing used their position as outsiders as well as their intimate knowledge of British universities through brothers, fathers, and friends, to satirize rote learning in schools for the working classes as well as the education offered by elite colleges. Cordner analyzes how predominant educational rhetoric, intended to celebrate England's progress while simultaneously controlling the spread of knowledge to the masses, gets recast not only by the four primary authors in this book but also by insiders of universities, who fault schools for their emphasis on memorization. Drawing upon working-men's club reports, student guides, educational pamphlets, and materials from the National Home Reading Union, as well as recent work on nineteenth-century theories of reading, Cordner unveils a broader cultural movement that embraced the freedom of learning on one's own.

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