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The impact and content of English as a subject on the curriculum is once more the subject of lively debate. Questions of English sets out to map the development of English as a subject and how it has come to encompass the diversity of ideas that currently characterise it. Drawing on a combination of historical analysis and recent research findings Robin Peel, Annette Patterson and Jeanne Gerlach bring together and compare important new insights on curriculum development and teaching practice from England, Australia and the United States. They also discuss the development of teacher training, highlighting the variety of ways in which teachers build their own beliefs and knowledge about English. eBook available with sample pages: 0203452739
Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural
exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to
1900, The Materials of Exchange examines material, visual, and
print culture alongside literature within a transatlantic context.
The contributors trace the evolution of Anglo-American culture from
its origins as a product of the British North Atlantic Empire
through to its persistence in the post-Independence world of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While transatlanticism is
a well-established field in history and literary studies, this
volume recognizes the wider diversity and interactions of
transatlantic cultural production across material and visual
cultures as well as literature. As such, while encompassing a range
of fields and approaches within the humanities, the ten chapters
are all concerned with understanding and interpreting the same
Anglo-American culture within the same social contexts. The
chapters integrate the literary with the material, offering
alternative and provocative perspectives on topics ranging from the
child-made book to representations of domestic slaves in
literature, by way of history painting, travel writing,
architecture and political plays. By focusing on cultural exchanges
between Britain and the north-eastern maritime United States over
nearly two centuries, the collection offers an in-depth study of
Britain's relationship with a single region of North America over
an extended historic period. Contributors have resisted the
temptation to prioritize the relationship between New England and
England in particular by placing this association within the
contexts of Atlantic exchanges with other northeastern states as
well as with the South, the Caribbean and Scotland. Intended for
researchers in literature, visual and material culture, this
collection challenges single-subject boundaries by redefining
transatlantic studies as the collective examination of the complex
and interrelated cultural t
The impact and content of English as a subject on the curriculum is once more the subject of lively debate. Questions of English sets out to map the development of English as a subject and how it has come to encompass the diversity of ideas that currently characterise it. Drawing on a combination of historical analysis and recent research findings Robin Peel, Annette Patterson and Jeanne Gerlach bring together and compare important new insights on curriculum development and teaching practice from England, Australia and the United States. They also discuss the development of teacher training, highlighting the variety of ways in which teachers build their own beliefs and knowledge about English.
This rich and diverse collection of essays explores the literary
and ideological cultural exchanges between Britain and New England
from 1610 to 1910. The contributors embrace material studies of
written and printed texts, performance, the novel, expository
writing, and early film. Through intriguingly fresh readings of the
work of writers ranging from Anne Bradstreet to Walt Whitman and
from John Winthrop, Jr., to Jack London, the book examines the
intellectual and aesthetic exchanges produced by transatlantic
cultural traffic. The focus and detail of the essays make an
important contribution to the ongoing debates about
British-American transatlantic literary exchanges, highlighting the
conversions, adjustments, and translations in the transnational
circulation of culture.
This book will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars in American,
British, and Transatlantic literary studies.
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