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In this wide-ranging and richly detailed book Alan Richardson addresses many issues in literary and educational history never before examined together. The result is an unprecedented study of how transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we know it.
In chapters focused on such topics as definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature, female education, and publishing ventures aimed at working-class adults, Richardson demonstrates how literary genres, from fairy tales to epic poems, were enlisted in an ambitious program for transforming social relations through reading and education. Themes include literary developments such as the domestic novel, a sanitized and age-stratified literature for children, the invention of 'popular' literature, and the constitution of 'Literature' itself in the modern sense.
Romantic texts - by Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Yearsley among others - are reinterpreted in the light of the complex historical and social issues which inform them, and which they in turn critically address.
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Books and reading, Education, English literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Romanticism, Social aspects of Books and reading, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Education, great britain, history, Romanticism, great britain, Social aspectsPlaces
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Literature, education, and romanticism: reading as social practice, 1780-1832
2004, Cambridge University Press
in English
- 1st pbk. ed.
0521607094 9780521607094
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Literature, education, and romanticism: reading as social practice, 1780-1832
1994, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521462762 9780521462761
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