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This volume brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and profoundly significant ways in which female literary artists interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice. The volume recreates the plurality and non-linearity of the conversations and forms of literary expression that took place in and through this body of educational writing. Literature and education in the long eighteenth-century share certain perceived aims: the transmission of knowledge, strengthening of understanding, acculturation, and sometimes empowerment. They also share structural forms: lessons; conversations; letters; dramatizations; confessions; narratives; imitations; sometimes fantasies. In the long eighteenth-century, authors of literary texts were often authors of educational treatises who saw their activities in both spheres as interrelated. As such, the parties of teacher and pupil, author and reader frequently overlap. This book provides a historically sensitive understanding of the fraught relations between these parties, drawing attention to the period's debates about authority and freedom as they relate to matters of gender, race, religion, age, and class. This project provides a nuanced understanding of women's literary contributions to the period's strands of educational thought, enabling us to better understand the many and complicated ways in which authors and readers of the period envisaged that literary texts might fulfil, fail, or refuse to fulfil, educational functions.

Education in literature. --- Education --- Women --- History --- EDUCATION / History. --- 1700-1799 --- Education.

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The "Schoolhouse Gothic," undertaken by insiders and outsiders to the academy alike and embodied both in literature and in academic discourse, draws on Gothic metaphors and themes in representing and interrogating contemporary American schools and educators. Curses from the past take the form of persistent power inequities (of race, gender, class, and age) and, rather ironically, the very Enlightenment that was to save the moderns from rigid, ancient, mystified hierarchies. In Schoolhouse Got...

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American --- Education in literature. --- American fiction --- Schools in literature --- American gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism.

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This book addresses how current debates about education could make a contribution to feminist thought.

Feminism and education. --- Feminism in literature. --- Education in literature. --- Schools in literature --- Feminist theory in literature --- Education and feminism --- Education --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- Fiction --- Feminism --- Literature --- Theory --- Book

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Jewish American immigrants and their children have been stereotyped as exceptional educational achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities leading directly to professional success. In College Bound, Dan Shiffman uses literary accounts to show that American Jews' relationship with education was in fact far more complex. Jews expected book learning to bring personal fulfillment and self-transformation, but the reality of public schools and universities often fell short. Shiffman examines a wide range of novels and autobiographies by first- and second-generation writers, including Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Elizabeth Gertrude Stern, Ludwig Lewisohn, Marcus Eli Ravage, Lionel Trilling, and Leo Rosten. Their visions of learning as a process of critical questioning—enlivening the mind, interrogating cultural standards, and confronting social injustices—present a valuable challenge to today's emphasis on narrowly measurable outcomes of student achievement.

American literature --- Education in literature. --- Education --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Schools in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism.

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Antike Bildungskonzepte werden in jüngerer Zeit intensiv erforscht. Dieser Band lenkt den Blick auf die Spätantike und den lateinischen Westen des Römischen Reiches. In den Saturnalia wendet sich Macrobius an seinen Sohn, um ihm Wissenswertes zu vermitteln. Untersucht wird, um welche Informationen es sich dabei handelt und wofür sie nützlich sind. Dazu werden auch der Entstehungskontext und die literarische Form der Saturnalia bestimmt und gedeutet. Aus den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris lässt sich ebenfalls ein Konzept von Bildung ableiten. Zwar lassen sich weniger konkrete Bildungsinhalte erschließen, dafür bieten die Briefe wertvolle Einblicke in das Verständnis und die Wertschätzung von Bildung im Gallien des 5. Jahrhunderts. Martianus Capellas De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii gilt als erste Enzyklopädie. Das Werk ist aufgrund seines Entstehungskontextes und seiner außergewöhnlichen literarischen Form von besonderem Interesse für die Untersuchung. Ausgehend von der Interpretation dieser drei Autoren wird ein Konzept der Bildungsvorstellungen im 5. Jh. n. Chr. entworfen, das Inhalte und Traditionen gleichermaßen aufgreift und Träger von Bildung sowie deren Einstellungen gegenüber Bildung aufzeigt.

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