Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Taylor & Francis

Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureNational and Transatlantic Contexts\nAuthor(s): Monika Elbert, Lesley Ginsberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138781122, 978-1138781122\nSynopsis\nAmerican publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, childrens literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy.\n\nThe essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence was generally progressive, the benefits of this social change did not reach many par.