1st Edition
Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction: Miss Schooled: Representing Adolescent Female Education in Nineteenth-Century America. 1. “Oh, I am homesick at the idea of a school and a master”: Negotiating Domestic Education in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons 2. To Teach and to Cure: Medical Interventions into Female Education and Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny 3. Reading, Writing, and Re-presenting: The Newspaper and the Schoolgirl in the Wreath of Cherokee Rosebuds and S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest 4. “How shall we ever get out of slavery?”: Frances E. W. Harper’s Trial and Triumph and Black Female Education in the Post-Reconstruction Era. Epilogue: Telling Tales Out of School
Biography
Jaime Osterman Alves is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College.
