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Fictions of female education in the nineteenth century
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Fictions of female education in the nineteenth century / Jaime Osterman Alves.
ISBN
9780415996761
0415996767
Published
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description
xv, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2011
Series
Studies in American popular history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
Contents
"Oh, I am homesick at the idea of a school and a master" : negotiating domestic education in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons
To teach and to cure : medical interventions into female education and Oliver Wendell Holmes's Elsie Venner: a romance of destiny
Reading, writing, and re-presenting : the newspaper and the schoolgirl in the Wreath of Cherokee rose buds and S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest
"How shall we ever get out of slavery?" : Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and triumph and black female education in the post-reconstruction era
Epilogue : telling tales out of school.
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