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Reading Victorian Schoolrooms Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
By Elizabeth Gargano
Copyright 2008
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Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian anxieties about the rapid institutionalization of education and the shrinking realm of domestic... Read more
Introduction 1. 'The Idea of a Wall': Toward a New Architecture of School and Mind 2. From Felix’s Cottage to Miss Temple’s Parlor: Domestic Instruction and the Paradox of the Teacher’s Room 3. Level Playing Fields and Locked Gardens: Nature at School 4. The View from the Sickroom Window: Zymosis, Brain Fever, and the Dangers of Institutional Education. Conclusion
Biography
Elizabeth Gargano is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
