Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large. Analysis of college curricula and biographies of female professors demonstrates the ways that women used Anglo-Saxon as a means to professional opportunity and political expression, especially in the suffrage movement, even as that legitimacy and respectability was freighted with largely unarticulated assumptions of racist and sexist privilege. The study concludes by connecting this historical analysis with current charged discussions about the intersections of race, class, and gender on college campuses and throughout US culture.

General

Imprint:	Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Mary Dockray-Miller
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	153
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-69705-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	3-319-69705-6
Barcode:	9783319697055

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