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Progressivism's Aesthetic Education - The Bildungsroman and the American School, 1890-1920 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Progressivism's Aesthetic Education - The Bildungsroman and the American School, 1890-1920 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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During the Progressive Era in the United States, as teaching became
professionalized and compulsory attendance laws were passed, the
public school emerged as a cultural authority. What did accepting
this authority mean for Americans' conception of self-government
and their freedom of thought? And what did it mean for the role of
artists and intellectuals within democratic society? Jesse Raber
argues that the bildungsroman negotiated this tension between
democratic autonomy and cultural authority, reprising an old role
for the genre in a new social and intellectual context. Considering
novels by Abraham Cahan, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
alongside the educational thought of John Dewey, the Montessorians,
the American Herbartians, and the social efficiency educators,
Raber traces the development of an aesthetics of social action.
Richly sourced and vividly narrated, this book is a creative
intervention in the fields of literary criticism, pragmatic
philosophy, aesthetic theory, and the history of education.
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