Literature, Education, and Romanticism - Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832 (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)

In this wide-ranging and 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 now 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 programme for transforming social relations through reading and education. Romantic texts - including Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Yearsley - are reinterpreted in the light of the complex historical and social issues which inform them and which they in turn critically address.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	1994
Authors:	Alan Richardson
Dimensions:	230 x 154 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	348
Edition:	1st pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-60709-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	0-521-60709-4
Barcode:	9780521607094

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