Novel pedagogy the novel and educational publications in Victorian Britain
Introduction : what kind of knowledge does the novel teach? -- William Thackeray, the character sketch, and the portrait of a novelist in literary history -- Charles Kingsley and the novelist as poetry instructor -- Great expectations and Dickens's spelling book predicament -- Elizabeth Gaskell...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : what kind of knowledge does the novel teach? -- William Thackeray, the character sketch, and the portrait of a novelist in literary history -- Charles Kingsley and the novelist as poetry instructor -- Great expectations and Dickens's spelling book predicament -- Elizabeth Gaskell and the ambiguity of useful knowledge -- George Eliot's "graceful mark of instruction" and the novel as "shallow" knowledge -- George Gissing and the elusive art of fiction -- Coda : can there ever be an endgame for the novel's intellectual rise? "Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | viii, 250 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781438499734 978-1-4384-9973-4 1438499736 |