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Archives of Instruction - Nineteenth-century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States (Paperback)
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Archives of Instruction - Nineteenth-century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
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Both a historical recovery and a critical rethinking of the
functions and practices of textbooks, "Archives of Instruction:
Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the
United States" argues for an alternative understanding of our
rhetorical traditions. The authors describe how the pervasive
influence of nineteenth-century literacy textbooks demonstrate the
early emergence of substantive instruction in reading and writing.
Tracing the histories of widespread educational practices, the
authors treat the textbooks as an important means of cultural
formation that restores a sense of their distinguished and unique
contributions.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, few people in the
United States had access to significant school education or to the
materials of instruction. By century's end, education was a
mass--though not universal--experience, and literacy textbooks were
ubiquitous artifacts, used both in home and in school by a growing
number of learners from diverse backgrounds. Many of the books have
been forgotten, their contributions slighted or dismissed, or they
are remembered through a haze of nostalgia as tokens of an idyllic
form of schooling. "Archives of Instruction" suggests strategies
for re-reading the texts and details the watersheds in the genre,
providing a new perspective on the material conditions of
schooling, book publication, and emerging practices of literacy
instruction. The volume includes a substantial bibliography of
primary and secondary works related to literacy instruction at all
levels of education in the United States during the nineteenth
century.
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