Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 304 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511484940
Content:
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes
Content:
The education of the people -- The improvement of the mind -- Household education versus school training -- Parents and children -- Professional educators in the home -- Schools and schooling -- A sound English education -- Religion and education -- The accomplishments -- Male and female education -- Beyond the schoolroom: reading and the Brontes -- Pedagogical purposes and principles -- Schoolroom practices -- Docility and originality -- Liberty and responsibility
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521832892
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521155618
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521832892
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Brontë, Anne 1820-1849
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Erziehung
;
Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855
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Brontë, Emily 1818-1848
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511484940
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